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First published in 1984, Death, Burial and the Individual in Early Modern England traces how and why the modern reaction to death has come about by examining En

Illness in childhood was common in early modern England. Hannah Newton asks how sick children were perceived and treated by doctors and laypeople, examines the

In this study, Michael Ullyot makes two new arguments about the rhetoric of exemplarity in late Elizabethan and Jacobean culture: first, that exemplarity is a r

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