ISBN:
9780415164641
,
0415164648
,
0203273559
,
9780203273555
,
9780203021026
,
0203021029
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (ix, 244 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in cultural history
Parallel Title:
Print version Old age from Antiquity to post-modernity
DDC:
305.26
Keywords:
Old age History
;
Old age Social aspects
;
Older people History
;
Vieillesse Histoire
;
Vieillesse Aspect social
;
Personnes âgées Histoire
;
Old age History
;
Old age Social aspects
;
Older people History
;
Old age History
;
Old age Social aspects
;
Older people History
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Gerontology
;
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Aging
;
Old age
;
Old age ; Social aspects
;
Older people
;
Ouderen
;
Ouderdom
;
Sociale aspecten
;
History
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of 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?
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-240) and index. - Description based on print version record
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