Ekirch, A. Roger. “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles.” The American Historical Review 106, no. 2 (2001): 343-386. JSTOR. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2651611>.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Blog Twenty One
As I read "Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles" the article talks about the fact that the difference among those in different social classes was farther greater than what was to be assumed at first. The higher class had the ability to buy better bedding and beds, and didn't stay up all night worrying about financial matters and other problems like the lower class did. This huge gap in those who rank different in societal classes ultimately affected the way of life and probably the mental and physical health of the lower class more severely, due to their inability to afford a doctor and provide adequate health services to themselves, they were put at a disadvantage before they even began.
Ekirch, A. Roger. “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles.” The American Historical Review 106, no. 2 (2001): 343-386. JSTOR. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2651611>.
Ekirch, A. Roger. “Sleep We Have Lost: Pre-industrial Slumber in the British Isles.” The American Historical Review 106, no. 2 (2001): 343-386. JSTOR. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/2651611>.
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I think it is crazy how even back then, wealth still defined a persons access to such natural and great things like sleep, and that to some extent sleep has always been a money filled industry.
ReplyDeleteHolli, it's funny to think of sleep as an industry back in the early-modern period, but you're absolutely right. Perhaps it always has been.
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