Aging and the Aged in Medieval Europe
Author: University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies. Conference
Publisher: PIMS
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780888448118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies. Conference
Publisher: PIMS
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780888448118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Shulamith Shahar
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780415333603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study draws a comprehensive picture of medieval old age in western Europe, combining primary sources and secondary litrature to produce a broad cultural history.
Author: University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies. Conference
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christian Krötzl
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782503532165
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Research into old age and dying in the pre-modern world has examined not only the demographic aspects of ageing populations but also the social role of aged people. The volume, with its diverse topics, cuts across traditional scholarly barriers and provides valuable analytical tools for further studies on the subject.
Author: David G. Troyansky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-05
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1317381408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Aging in World History, David G. Troyansky presents the first global history of aging. At a time when demographic aging has become a source of worldwide concern, and more people are reaching an advanced age than ever before, the history of old age helps us understand how we arrived at the treatment of aging in the modern world. This concise volume expands that history beyond the West to show how attitudes toward aging, the experiences of the aged, and relevant demographic patterns have varied and coalesced over time and across the world. From the ancient world to the present, this book introduces students and general readers to the history of aging on two levels: the experience of individual men and women, and the transformation of populations. With its attention to cultural traditions, medicalization, decades of historical scholarship, and current gerontology, Aging in World History is the perfect starting point for an exploration of this increasingly universal aspect of human experience.
Author: Joel T. Rosenthal
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1996-08-29
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780812233551
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This view of a society composed of the aged as well as of the young and the middle aged is reinforced by an examination of peers, bishops, and members of parliament and urban office holders, for whom demographic and career-length information exists. Many individuals had active careers until near the end of their lives; the aged were neither rarities nor outcasts within their world.
Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9783110195484
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →After an extensive introduction that takes stock of the relevant research literature on Old Age in the Middle Ages and the early modern age, the contributors discuss the phenomenon of old age in many different fields of late antique, medieval, and early modern literature, history, and art history. Both Beowulf and the Hildebrandslied, both Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Titurel, both the figure of Merlin and the trans-European tradition of Perceval/Peredur/Parzival, then the figure of the vetula in a variety of medieval French, English, and Spanish texts, and of the Old Man in The Stricker's Daniel, both the treatment of old age in Langland's Piers the Plowman and in Jean Gerson's sermons are dealt with. Other aspects involve late-antique epistolary literature, early modern French farce in light of Disability Studies, the social role of old, impotent men in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish paintings, and the scientific discourse of old age and health since the 1500s. The discourse of Old Age proves to have been of central importance throughout the ages, so the critical examination of the issues involved sheds intriguing light on the cultural history from late antiquity to the seventeenth century.
Author: Deborah Youngs
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2020-01-03
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1526148323
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first study to examine the entire life cycle in the Middle Ages. Drawing on a wide range of secondary and primary material, the book explores the timing and experiences of infancy, childhood, adolescence and youth, adulthood, old age and, finally, death. It discusses attitudes towards ageing, rites of passage, age stereotypes in operation, and the means by which age was used as a form of social control, compelling individuals to work, govern, marry and pay taxes. The wide scope of the study allows contrasts and comparisons to be made across gender, social status and geographical location. It considers whether men and women experienced the ageing process in the same way, and examines the differences that can be discerned between northern and southern Europe. The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries suffered famine, warfare, plague and population collapse. This fascinating consideration of the life cycle adds a new dimension to the debate over continuity and change in a period of social and demographic upheaval.
Author: Pat Thane
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Seven contributors examine how the best thinkers and artists of each historical epoch in the West have treated old age. Full of surprising and fascinating facts, this is an uplifting companion for those who, like it or not, are beginning to understand the inevitability of their own aging process.
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →YA. Biographical info. about the era's historic figures such as Charlemagne, Thomas Becket and Abelard and Heloise. 11 yrs+