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Suicide was regarded as a terrible crime in Tudor and Stuart England, and was subject to savage punishments: Those who succeeded had their property forfeited to the crown; their bodies were denied Christian burial and desecrated. Yet in Georgian England suicide was in practice de-criminalized, tolerated, and even sentimentalized. In this, the latest in the Oxford Studies in Social History series, Michael MacDonald and Terence Murphy use a wide variety of sources to trace the causes of dramatically changing attitudes to suicide, providing a history of social and cultural change in English society over three centuries.
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29-November-1990
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Suicide was regarded as a terrible crime in Tudor and Stuart England, yet was in practice de-criminalized, tolerated, and even sentimentalized in the Georgian period. This book traces the dramatically changing attitudes to suicide over three centuries.
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9780198229193
Publisher
Oxford University Press UK
Published
29-November-1990
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Hardback

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Suicide was regarded as a terrible crime in Tudor and Stuart England, yet was in practice de-criminalized, tolerated, and even sentimentalized in the Georgian period. This book traces the dramatically changing attitudes to suicide over three centuries.