The history of old age in England, 1600-1800

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The history of old age in England, 1600-1800

general editors, Lynn Botelho and Susannah R. Ottaway

Pickering & Chatto

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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.

目次

  • Part I Volume 1 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, This 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 Infirmities 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 Ratcliff High-Way (1669)
  • John Hart, Christ's First Sermon, or, The Absolute Necessity, Gospel Duty and Christian Practice of Repentance (1676)
  • A Relation of the Last Words and Departure of that Antient and Honourable 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 Sancroft'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 Sheriff on Account of his Weakness and Old Age' (n.d.) Volume 2 Literature Richard Bulstrode, 'Of Old Age', in Miscellaneous Essays (1715)
  • Thomas Brown, 'Mr. Brown's Horace', 'To a Gentleman that Cut off his Hair ... in his Old Age', 'A Catch', 'Laconics
  • or, New Maxims of State and Conversation' and 'To My Lady ... that Marry'd an Old Decrepid Widower', in The Works of Mr. Thomas Brown (1744)
  • Samuel Johnson, 'Age and Youth' and 'Old Age' (1750), in The Beauties of the Rambler, Adventurer, Connoisseur, World, and Idler (1787)
  • George Saville Carey, Three Old Woman Weatherwise, an Interlude ([1788])
  • Mr Addison, 'Old Age' and 'On Youth', in A Collection of Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments (1793) Ballads, Broadsides and Ephemera A Comical and Diverting Courtship, which Lately Happened between an old Woman of Fourscore and Fifteen, and a Youth about Nineteen, With whom she was Married ([1700-99])
  • 'An Epitaph on Bona Fide, Here Lies an Old Man of Seventy-Seven', in Pills to Purge State-Melancholy (1718)
  • The Deluge: or, Cautious Old-Woman. A Tale (1723)
  • The Age and Life of Man
  • or, A Short Description of his Nature, Rise and Fall, According to the Twelve Months of the Year ([c. 1750])
  • 'Lancashire John' and 'The Old Woman Spinning of Time', in Lancashire John's Garland ([c. 1750])
  • Jacob Easterbrook, 'On Life' and 'The Mistletoe - A Christmas Tale, By Laura Maria', in A Copy of Verses, Humbly Presented to all my Worthy Masters and Mistresses of the City of Bristol ([1761])
  • The Felton Garland. Containing Three Excellent New Songs ([c. 1760])
  • The Wanton Virgins Frighted: With the Spy's Down-Fall from the Tree-Top ([c. 1760])
  • The Age of Man, Displayed in the Several Changes of Human Life ([c. 1775])
  • The Old Woman Cloathed in Grey ([c. 1775])
  • The Chearfull Old Maid (n.d.)
  • The Honey Moon (n.d.)
  • The Age of Man, Compared to all the Months in the Year ([c. 1790])
  • The Cuckold's Cap Garland (n.d.)
  • Beneath This Stone Lies Catherine Gray. An Epitaph on an Old Woman Who Sold Earthen Ware at Chester ([c. 1800])
  • George Alexander Stevens, The Description of a Wonderful Old Man ([c. 1800])
  • 'The Age of Man', in An Excellent Garland ([c. 1800]) Medicine and Prolongevity Nicholas Robinson, A New Method of Treating Consumptions, Wherein all the Decays Incident to Human Bodies, are Mechanically Accounted for (1727)
  • The Best and Easiest Method of Preserving Uninterrupted Health to Extreme Old Age (1748)
  • [John Hill], The Old Man's Guide to Health and Longer Life ([c. 1750])
  • 'Doctor Adelphi', Sung, in a new Piece, at the Patagonian Theatre, Exeter Change, The Words by Robt Dighton ([c. 1770])
  • Remarks on the Final Cessation of the Menses (1775)
  • John Bexley, Fifty-Four Years the Canterbury News-Carrier ([1788])
  • The Art of Preserving Beauty (1789)
  • William Brodum, A Guide to Old Age, or a Cure for the Indiscretions of Youth (1799)
  • An Essay on the Most Rational Means of Preserving Health, and Attaining to an Advanced Age (1799)
  • A Dialogue between Life and Death ([c. 1800])
  • Isaac James, Bookseller, Tea-Dealer, and Undertaker ([c. 1805]) Sermons John Graile, Vigorous Longevity
  • or, A Good Old Age, and the Best Way, both to Attain it
  • and to Improve it (1720)
  • Samuel Hebden, The Best Way to Provide Against Old Age and to Prepare for Death (1739)
  • Jacob Isaac, Religion Alone the Cause of Happiness in Old Age (1787) Volume 3 Conduct Books [James Cleland], The Scottish Academie, or Institution of a Young Noble-Man (1611)
  • Matthew Griffith, Bethel: or, A Forme for Families (1633)
  • Daniel Touteville, St. Pauls Threefold Cord (1635)
  • Richard Baxter, Compassionate Counsel to All Young Men (1681)
  • James Kirkwood, A New Family-Book
  • or, The True Interest of Families (1693)
  • James Kirkwood, Advice to Children, bound with A New Family-Book
  • or, The True Interest of Families (1693) Letters and Personal Correspondence The Right Honorable Richard Earle of Carbery his Advice to his Sonn (1651)
  • Sir Francis Fane, Commonplace Book (1655/6) Books, Essays And Pamphlets A Twofold Treatise (1632)
  • A Spiritual Journey of a Young Man (1659) Ballads and Pamphlets The Unnatural Grand Mother (1659)
  • The Old Mans Complaint against his Wretched Son ([1658-64])
  • The Fathers Good Counsel to his Lascivious Son ([1670])
  • The Ungrateful Son ([c. 1672])
  • A Hundred Godly Lessons ([1674-9])
  • A Most Excellent Ballad of an Old Man and his Wife ([1678-81])
  • The True Lovers Happiness or, Nothing Venture, Nothing Have ([1692])
  • The Unfortunate Couple
  • or, The Unkind Father ([c. 1700]) Volume 4 Literature and Essays Samuel Catherall, Cato Major. A Poem (1725)
  • [Daniel Defoe], Chickens feed Capons, or, A Dissertation on the Pertness of our Youth in General (1731)
  • John Asgill, A Postscript to Asgill's Essay upon Charity ([1731])
  • John Fielding, The Universal Mentor (1763)
  • Instructions for the Conduct of Females, from Infancy to Old Age (1788)
  • The Female Aegis
  • or, The Duties of Women from Childhood to Old Age, and in Most Situations of Life, Exemplified (1798)
  • Thomas Bernard, Comforts of Old Age (1818) Ballads, Chapbooks and Broadsides The Falling Out ([1718])
  • The Old Man, his Son, and the Ass: A Fabulous Tale (1723)
  • [John Galliard], Tho' Envious Old Age Seem in Part to Impair Me ([c. 1726])
  • Low Down in the Broom ([c. 1770])
  • The Old Man, his Children, and the Bundle of Sticks. A Fable ([c. 1776])
  • My Grandmother's Cot, a New Ballad ([c. 1780])
  • The Slighted Father: or The Unnatural Son Justly Reclaimed ([1780-1810])
  • 'An Old Woman Clothed in Grey' ([c. 1800]) Legal Documents Exchange of Letters from Dr Lloyd, the Vicar of Puddletown, Dorset, and his Lawyer concerning a Dispute over Vicarial Tithes (1777)
  • Sarah Dibben's Settlement Examinations, along with Testimony from her Son Melchizedeck and his Wife (1776)
  • Selected Wills from Dorset, Essex and Yorkshire (1701-88) Household Listings Revd Henry Dawnay, Account of the Inhabitants of Piddletown Parish (1724) Personal Papers Some Account of ye Life &C. of John Fryer & of Severall of his Relations. Written by Himself (1715)
  • 'Diary of Thomas Smith of Shaw House' (1721), in J. A. Neale (ed.), Charters and Records of Neales of Berkeley Yate and Corsham (1906)

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA85475349
  • ISBN
    • 9781851968695
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    und
  • 出版地
    London
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