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They were less depressed in the Middle Ages

John Bossy

  • Marx on Suicide edited by Eric Plaut and Kevin Anderson, translated by Gabrielle Edgcomb
  • Suicide in the Middle Ages, Vol I: The Violent Against Themselves by Alexander Murray
  • A History of Suicide: Voluntary Death in Western Culture by Georges Minois, translated by Lydia Cochrane

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John Bossy is an emeritus professor of history at York University. His books include Under the Molehill: An Elizabethan Spy Story.

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