Strategies of poor aged women and widows in sixteenth-century London

Women and Ageing in British Society since 1500

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 13-30

  Schen, Claire S ^a  

^a Wake Forest School of Medicine Winston Salem   (United States)

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35. Joseph P. Ward, Metropolitan Communities: Trade Guilds, Identity, and Change in Early Modem London (Stanford, CA, 1997), pp.45-69. More researchis neededo n craft or trade guilds and their charity both before and after the Reformation.