Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-323) and index.
Contents
Death by lack of cherishing : vagrancy and the work of Thomas Harman -- Holiness and homelessness, or, Joke books and the English Reformation -- More matter for mirth : humanism against the homeless -- Homelessness on the home front : monarchy, nation building, and domesticity -- Policing the boundaries of shame : hygiene, civility, and homelessness -- Lear, the homeless king.
