[PDF] Aging And The Aged In Medieval Europe eBook

Author : Shulamith Shahar
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,70 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Aged
ISBN : 9780415333603

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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 : Christian Krötzl
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Civilization, Classical
ISBN : 9782503532165

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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 : Joel T. Rosenthal
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,2 MB
Release : 1996-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812233551

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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 : David G. Troyansky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 37,33 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1317381408

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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 : Pat Thane
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :

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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 : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110195484

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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 : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN :

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YA. Biographical info. about the era's historic figures such as Charlemagne, Thomas Becket and Abelard and Heloise. 11 yrs+

Author : Deborah Youngs
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,93 MB
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1526148323

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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.