History of Old Age: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

by Georges Minois

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History of Old Age is the first major study of the ways in which old age has been perceived in western culture throughout history. Georges Minois paints a vast fresco, starting with the first old man to relate his own story--an Egyptian scribe some 4500 years ago--and ending with the deaths of Elizabeth I and Henry IV in the sixteenth century. Tracing the changing conceptions of the nature, value, and burden of the old, Minois argues that western...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0226530310

ISBN13:9780226530314

Release Date:November 1989

Publisher:University of Chicago Press

Length:354 Pages

Weight:1.50 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"

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