Old age from Antiquity to post-modernity / edited by Paul Johnson and Patricia Thane.

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TextSeries: Routledge studies in cultural historyPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 244 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0203273559
9780203273555
9780203021026
0203021029
9780415164641
0415164648
1280333197
9781280333194
9786610333196
661033319X
9781134711246
1134711247
9781134711192
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9781134711239
1134711239
9781138007093
1138007099
0203208404
9780203208403

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Old age from Antiquity to post-modernity.DDC classification:

305.26 21

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HQ1061 .O377 1998eb

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Contents:

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?

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

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.