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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455158703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998

ISBN

1-134-71124-7

1-280-33319-7

0-203-02102-9

0-203-27355-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JohnsonPaul (Paul A.)

ThanePat

Disciplina

305.2609

Soggetti

Old age - History

Old age - Social aspects

Older people - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-240) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?

Old age and the health care system in the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesOld age in the New World: New Zealand's colonial welfare experiment; The family lives of old people; Parallel histories of retirement in modern Britain; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Based on themes such as status and welfare, Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity examines the role of the elderly in history. This empirical study represents a substantial contribution to both the



historical understanding of old age in past societies as well as the discussion of the contribution of post-modernism to historical scholarship.