Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781843830948)

This study is a test-case of the old poor law. In its exploration of the virtually unknown world of the aged poor in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, it asks how the elderly poor managed to survive in a pre-industrial economy, and answers through focusing on the many factors that make up the experience of old age - status, health, wealth, and local culture - in two Suffolk villages. Botelho demonstrates that the poor law did not, nor did it intend to, provide complete support, and she documents the individual efforts of the poor as they made their own old age arrangements, drawing as heavily upon their own initiatives as upon charity and legislated relief. LYNN BOTELHO is Associate Professor of History, Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Author: Lynn Ann Botelho
ISBN-10: 1843830949
ISBN-13: 9781843830948
Publisher: Boydell Press
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2004
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.48w x 0.81d