History of Old Age: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

by Georges Minois

Book Overview

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"