The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part I Vol 1 de Lynn Botelho

The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part I Vol 1

Lynn Botelho

Susannah R Ottaway

Anne Kugler

What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? This eight-volume edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.

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Volume 1 General Introduction, The Cultural Conception of Old Age in the Seventeenth Century General Introduction Introduction Literature ‘A Charme Ffran: Beaumont’, in Commonplace Book (1630) Joseph Hall, ‘Youth and Age’, ‘Maides and Widowes’, ‘Defence of a Bald Head’, ‘The Olde Man’s Song’ and ‘A Widdowe that is Rich and Woundrous Olde’, in Commonplace Book (c. 1650) Theophilus Alye, ‘On a Childlesse Woman’ and ‘On a Toothlesse Woman’, in Commonplace Book (1679–1716) Ballads and Broadsides By the Merry Landes Date (1635) Robert Guy, The Merry Old Woman: or, T is is a Good Old Woman this is a Merry Old Woman (1640) Walter Pope, The Old Mans Complaint: or, The Unequal Matcht Couple (1650) The Jealous Old Dotard: or, The Discovery of Cuckoldry: a Pleasant New Song (1680) William Farthing, The Old Mans Complaint as Followeth (1680) Proverbs James Howell, Paroimiographia Proverbs, or Old Sayed Sawes and Adages in English (or the Saxon toung) Italian, French and Spanish whereunto the British, for their Great Antiquity, and Weight are Added (1659) Medicine Thomas Cogan, ‘Of the Age of the Partie’, in The Hauen of Health (1584) Simon Harward, Simon Harwards Phlebotomy: or, A Treatise of Letting of Bloud (1601) Leonardus Lessius, Hygiasticon: or, The Right Course of Preserving Life and Health unto Extream Old Age (1634) Lud. Cornarus, ‘A Treatise of Temperance and Sobriete’, in Leonardus Lessius, Hygiasticon: or, The Right Course of Preserving Life and Health unto Extream Old Age (1634) Nicholas Culpeper, Galen’s Art of Physick … Translated into English, and largely commented on (1652) Johann Jacob Wecker, Arts Master-Piece or, The Beautifying Part of Physick (1660) Books, Essays and Pamphlets John Smith, The Pourtract of Old Age wherein is contained a Sacred Anatomy both of Soul and Body, and a Perfect Account of the Informities of Age incident to them both (1666) A Word to the Aged (1667) Sermons and Spirituality Fulk Bellers, Abrahams Interment: or The Good Old-Mans Buriall in a Good Old Age (1656) The Life and Death of Damaris Page that Great, Arch, Metropolitan (Old Woman) of Ratclif High-Way (1669) John Hart, Christ’s First Sermon, or, The Absolute Necessity, Gospel Duty and Christian Practice of Repentance, 16th edn (1676) A Relation of the Last Words and Departure of that Antient and Hon[1]ourable Woman Loveday Hambly, of Trigangeeues, in the Parish of Austell in the County of Cornwal (1683) Patrick Ker, ‘Meditation IV. Of Old Age’, in The Map of Man’s Misery: or, The Poor Man’s Pocket-Book being a Perpetual Almanack of Spiritual Meditations: or Compleat Directory for One Endless Week (1690) Biography; John Taylor, The Old, Old, Very Old Man: or, The Age and Long Life of Thomas Par (1635); The Old Mans Life Renewed by Heavenly Providence ([1657]); Archbishop Sancrof ’s Notebook (n.d.); Petitions and Legal Documents; ‘Petition of Sir Thomas Holland to the King to Appoint some other in his Place as High Sherif on Account of his Weakness and Old Age’ (n.d.) Editorial Notes

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