History of old age : from antiquity to the Renaissance / Georges Minois ; translated by Sarah Hanbury Tenison
Cambridge : Polity, 1989. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #426775
ISBN: 0745605494
Physical description; viii, 343 pages. Notes; Translation of: Histoire de la vieillesse. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The Middle East of Antiquity: The experience of old age between myth and history -- The Hebraic World: From Patriach to old man -- The Greek World: 'Sad Old Age' -- The Roman World: The old man's grandeur and decadence -- The early Middle Ages: The old man as a symbol in Christian literature -- The early Middle Ages: Indifference to age -- The Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century: The social and cultural diversification of old people -- The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Old people assert themselves -- The Sixteenth Century: Humanists and courtiers versus old age -- The Sixteenth Century: The real weight of the old. Subjects; Old age. Old age Europe History. Older people Europe Social conditions. Social structure Europe History. Old age in literature.
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