Old age from Antiquity to post-modernity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1998.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=80128 |
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?