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
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Author: University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies. Conference
Publisher: PIMS
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780888448118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shulamith Shahar
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780415333603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Christian Krötzl
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782503532165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch 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: University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies. Conference
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Joel T. Rosenthal
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1996-08-29
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780812233551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: David G. Troyansky
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-05
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1317381408
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Pat Thane
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSeven 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: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9783110195484
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter 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: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYA. Biographical info. about the era's historic figures such as Charlemagne, Thomas Becket and Abelard and Heloise. 11 yrs+
Author: Nancy A. Pachana
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0198725329
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgeing is an activity we are familiar with from an early age. In our younger years upcoming birthdays are anticipated with an excitement that somewhat diminishes as the years progress. As we grow older we are bombarded with advice on ways to overcome, thwart, resist, and, on the rare occasion, embrace, one's ageing. Have all human beings from the various historical epochs and cultures viewed aging with this same ambivalence? In this Very Short Introduction Nancy A. Pachana discusses the lifelong dynamic changes in biological, psychological, and social functioning involved in ageing. Increased lifespans in the developed and the developing world have created an urgent need to find ways to enhance our functioning and well-being in the later decades of life, and this need is reflected in policies and action plans addressing our ageing populations from the World Health Organization and the United Nations. Looking to the future, Pachana considers advancements in the provision for our ageing populations, including revolutionary models of nursing home care such as Green House nursing homes in the USA and Small Group Living homes in the Netherlands. She shows that understanding the process of ageing is not only important for individuals, but also for societies and nations, if the full potential of those entering later life is to be realised. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.