Finding widowers: Men without women in English towns before 1700

Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 37-54

  Pelling, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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