Old age from Antiquity to post-modernity

Johnson, Paul (Paul A.) (Added Author). Thane, Pat. (Added Author).

Summary: 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.

Record details

ISBN: 0203273559 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780203273555 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780203021026 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0203021029 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780415164641
ISBN: 0415164648
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (ix, 244 p.) : ill.
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [226]-240) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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?
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.