Old age from Antiquity to post-modernity /

Old age from Antiquity to post-modernity / edited by Paul Johnson and Patricia Thane. - London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. - 1 online resource (ix, 244 pages) : illustrations - Routledge studies in cultural history . - Routledge studies in cultural history. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-240) and index.

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Preface; Historical readings of old age and ageing; Ageing in antiquity: status and participation; Old age in the high and late Middle Ages: image, expectation and status; Ageing and well-being in early modern England: pension trends and gender preferences under the English Old Poor Law c. 1650 1800; Balancing social and cultural approaches to the history of old age and ageing in Europe: a review and an example from post-Revolutionary France; The ageing of the population: relevant question or obsolete notion?

Featuring both methodological and empirical studies, Old Age represents a substantial contribution to the historical understanding of old age in past societies, as well as to the debate about post-modernism in historical study.


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Old age--History.
Old age--Social aspects.
Older people--History.
Vieillesse--Histoire.
Vieillesse--Aspect social.
Personnes âgées--Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Gerontology.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS--Aging.
Old age.
Old age--Social aspects.
Older people.
Ouderen.
Ouderdom.
Sociale aspecten.


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