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Author | : Georges Minois |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1989-11-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226530314 |
History of Old Age is the first major study of the ways in which old age has been perceived in western culture throughout history. Georges Minois paints a vast fresco, starting with the first old man to relate his own story—an Egyptian scribe some 4500 years ago—and ending with the deaths of Elizabeth I and Henry IV in the sixteenth century. Tracing the changing conceptions of the nature, value, and burden of the old, Minois argues that western history during this period is marked by great fluctuation in the social and political role of the aged. Minois shows how, in ancient Greece, the cult of youth and beauty on the one hand, and the reverence for the figure of the Homeric sage, on the other, created an ambivalent attitude toward the aged. This ambiguity appears again in the contrast between the active role that older citizens played in Roman politics and their depiction in satirical literature of the period. Christian literature in the Middle Ages also played a large part in defining society's perception of the old, both in the image of the revered holy sage and in the total condemnation of the aged sinner. Drawing on literary texts throughout, Minois considers the interrelation of literary, religious, medical, and political factors in determining the social fate of the elderly and their relationship to society. This book will be of great interest to social and cultural historians, as well as to general readers interested in the subject of the aged in society today.
Author | : Pat Thane |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2000-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191542172 |
At the end of the twentieth century more people are living into their seventies, eighties, nineties and beyond, a process expected to continue well into the next millennium. The twentieth century has achieved what people in other centuries only dreamed of: many can now expect to survive to old age in reasonably good health and can remain active and independent to the end, in contrast to the high death rate, ill health and destitution which affected all ages in the past. Yet this change is generally greeted not with triumph but with alarm. It is assumed that the longer people live, the longer they are ill and dependent, thus burdening a shrinking younger generation with the cost of pensions and health care. It is also widely believed that 'the past' saw few survivors into old age and these could be supported by their families without involving the taxpayer. In this first survey of old age throughout English history, these assumptions are challenged. Vivid pictures are given of the ways in which very large numbers of older people lived often vigorous and independent lives over many centuries. The book argues that old people have always been highly visible in English communities, and concludes that as people live longer due to the benefits of the rise in living standards, far from being 'burdens' they can be valuable contributors to their family and friends.
Author | : Leon Trousdale |
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Total Pages | : 586 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Shelby County (Tenn.) |
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Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 1893 |
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Author | : Frederick Charles Johnson |
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Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Local history |
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Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Wyoming Valley (Pa.) |
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Author | : Lynn Botelho |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2024-08-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1040243703 |
What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? This eight-volume edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.
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Total Pages | : 1544 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Michigan |
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Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1875 |
Genre | : Shelby County (Tenn.) |
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Total Pages | : 98 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Indiana |
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