Explores the experiences of the sick poor in modern Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives.

This study provides an accessible and authoritative account of poverty and deviance during the early modern period, informed by those perspectives on the role o

The Routledge History of Poverty, c.1450–1800 is a pioneering exploration of both the lives of the very poorest during the early modern period, and of the vas

This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Lu