Publications

Monographs

The Ageing Body in Early Modern England (in progress).

Old Age and the English Poor Law, 1500-1700 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2004).

 Edited Collections

John Winthrop’s Worlds: England and New England, 1588-1649, eds. F. Bremer and L. Botelho (Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006).

Power and Poverty: Old Age in Pre-Industrial Society, eds. S. Ottaway, L.Botelho, and K. Kittredge (Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2002).

Women and Ageing in Britain since 1500, eds. L. Botelho and P. Thane (London:Addison Wesley Longmans, 2000).

Edited Primary Source Collections

History of Old Age, 1600-1800, eds. L. Botelho and S. Ottaway, 8 vols. of primary sources, (Pickering Chatto, Vols. 1-4, 2008 and Vols. 5-8, 2009).

The Churchwardens’ Accounts of Cratfield, Suffolk, during the 1640s and 1650s, L. Botelho (Suffolk Record Society, Bury St Edmunds, 1999).

 ARTICLES/CHAPTERS/ESSAYS

‘Facing Old Age’, Herstory (public-facinfg history), special issue, Bodies, (forthcoming, 2020).

‘Old Age, Gender, and the Life Course’ in A Cultural History of Old Age in the Early Modern Era (1400-1650), eds J. Zuijderduun and C. Martin, Cultural History of Old Age Series, gen. eds D. Troyansky and T. Parkin (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming, 2020).

‘Old Age Outside the Bosom of the Family: Elizabeth Freke of Norfolk (d. 1714)’. A Sourcebook of Early Modern History: Life, Death, and Everything in Between: In Honor of Susan C. Karant-Nunn, ed. Ute Lotz-Heumann. (Routledge, 2019), pp. 145-48.

‘Old Age is not an Invention’, Frame: Journal of Literary Studies 30:1 (2017):  11-17.

‘Les Trois âges et la Mort du peintre Hans Baldung (XVIe siècle)’, Clio, Femmes, Genre, Histoire. Special themed edition, Âge et Sexualité. (42/2015): 191-201.   * Also reproduced in English, ‘Old Women and Sex: Fear, Fantasy, and a Defining Life Course in Early Modern Europe’, 2016.

‘Age And History As Categories Of Analysis: Refiguring Old Age’, Age, Culture, Humanities (2014). This is a partial reproduction of ‘Old Age: An examination of the literature on the meaning of aging for women, and the role of widows in early modern society’

‘A Respectful Challenge to the Nineteenth-Century’s View of Itself: An Argument for the Early Modern Medicalization of Old Age’. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Ageing in Nineteenth-Century Culture, eds. Katharina Boehm, Anna Farkas and Anne Zwierlein (Routledge, 2013).

‘Old Age: An examination of the literature on the meaning of aging for women, and the role of widows in early modern society’. Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe, eds. Allyson Poska, Katherine McIver, Jane Couchman (Ashgate, 2013). Reprinted in Chinese, 2016.

“London Calling! Roundtable: Paul Griffith’s Lost Londons: Change, Crime and Control in the Capital City 1550-1660, with R. Conners, Histoire sociale-Social History (Spring 2010): 213-19.

‘Anti-Aging and Biomedicine: Critical Studies on the Pursuit of Maintaining, Revitalizing and Enhancing Aging Bodies’, with A. Kampe, Medicine and Society (2009): 187-195.

‘Introduction to Volume 5’, History of Old Age, 1600-1800, Vol. 5, eds. L. Botelho and S. Ottaway, Vol. 5, (Pickering Chatto, 2008), pp. vii-xxiii.

‘General Introduction’, with S. R. Ottaway History of Old Age, 1600-1800, eds. L. Botelho and S. Ottaway, 8 vols. of primary sources, Vol. 1 (Pickering Chatto, 2008), pp. ix-xxxviii.

‘Introduction to Volume 1’, History of Old Age, 1600-1800, Vol. 1, eds. L. Botelho and S. Ottaway, Vol. 1, (Pickering Chatto, 2008), pp. xxxix-liiii.

‘Introduction to Volume 3’, History of Old Age, 1600-1800, Vol. 1, eds. L. Botelho and S. Ottaway, Vol. 3, (Pickering Chatto, 2008), pp. vii-xxi.

‘Introduction: Atlantic History and the world of John Winthrop’, with F. Bremer in John Winthrop’s Worlds: England and New England, 1588-1649, eds. F. Bremer and L. Botelho, (Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006), pp. 1-21.

‘Old Age in Seventeenth-Century Europe’ in The History of Old Age, ed. P. Thane (London: Thames and Hudson, 2005), pp. 113-73.

‘Images of Old Age in English Cheap Print’ in Old Age in Pre-Industrial Society, eds. S.Ottaway, L. Botelho, and K. Kittredge (Westport, Conn:  Greenwood Press, October 2002), pp. 225-46.

‘”The Old Woman’s Wish”: Widows by the Family Fire? Widows’ Old Age Provision in Rural England’, The Journal of Family History 7 (2002): 59-78.

‘Old Age and Menopause in Rural Women of Early Modern Suffolk’ in Women and Ageing in Britain since 1500, eds. L. Botelho and P. Thane (London: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000), pp. 43-65.

‘Aged and Impotent: Parish Relief of the Aged Poor in Early Modern Suffolk’ in Charity, Self-Interest and Welfare, ed. M. Daunton (London, 1996), pp. 91-112.

‘Accommodation for the Aged Poor of Cratfield in the Late Tudor and Early Stuart Period’, Suffolk Review 24 n.s. (1995): 19-30.

GUEST EDITOR OF JOURNAL

‘Anti-Aging Movements’, Medicine and Society (2009).

NOTES

‘Old Age’ (500 words) in The Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance (ABC-CLIO, 2006).

‘Bridewell’; ‘Clothing’; Death and Dying’; ‘Old Age’; ‘Poor Relief’; ‘Poverty’ (250-500   words each) in The Encyclopaedia of Puritanism, eds. Francis Bremer and Tom Webster (ABC-CLIO, 2005).

‘Tips for Health and Beauty: Putting a Fair Face on Present Trouble’, War Times, 1642 in Review, a supplement to The Times, 11 April 1992, p. 4.

MONOGRAPH SERIES EDITOR

‘The Body, Gender, and Culture, 1450-1850’ for Pickering Chatto Press, London (2007-2013).

EDITORIAL BOARD

Herstory (Spanish and English magazine), public-facing history and contemporary issues, editorial board (2019- present).

Age, Culture, Humanities (a journal), editorial board (2012-present).

The Encyclopaedia of Puritanism, eds. Francis Bremer and Tom Webster (ABC-CLIO, 2005).      Awarded a CHOICE Outstanding Title by CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries.

GRANT REVIEWER (selected)

Council for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) (2014, 2016, 2019-declined).

National Science Foundation (2008).

State System Faculty Professional Development Council (1999-2001).

JOURNAL REFEREE, includes:

The Journal of British Studies; Social Science History; Journal of Women’s History; Bulletin of the History of Medicine; Science in Context; Culture and Social History; Early Modern Cultural Studies; Social History of Medicine.

MONOGRAPH/TEXTBOOK REFEREE, includes:

Cambridge University Press; Yale University Press; Routledge Press; Peter Lang..

REVIEWS have appeared or are forthcoming in Gender and History; Continuity and Change; Social History; The Journal of Modern History; Local Population Studies; Journal of British Studies/Albion; Sixteenth Century Journal; Eighteenth Century Journal; Bulletin of the History of Medicine.