"Lusty" sack possets, fertility, and the foodways of early modern weddings

Sasha Handley

is Professor of early modern history at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Sleep in Early Modern England (Yale University Press, 2016) and Visions of an Unseen World: Ghost Stories and Ghost Beliefs in Eighteenth Century England (Pickering & Chatto, 2007). — View all posts by Sasha Handley