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History of
Old
Age
George Minois
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History of Old Age
Sinopsis
This book is the first major study of the ways in
which old age was perceived in Western culture
and society. Beginning from ancient Palestine
and Classical Greece, Minois traces the
changing conceptions of the nature, value and
burden of the old. He shows how, in ancient
Greece, the cult of youth and beauty, on the one
hand, and the reverence for the figure of the
Homeric sage, on the other, created an
ambivalent attitude towards the aged. This
ambiquity appears again in the contrast between
the active role that senior citizens played in
Roman politics, and their depiction in satirical
literature of the period. Christian literature
in the Middle Ages also played a large part in
defining the society8242sperception of the
old, both in the image of the revered holy sage
and in the total condemnation of the aged
sinner. Minois traces the increasingly positive
image of old age in various professions from the
eleventh to the sixteenth centuries. He shows
how, as medical advances lengthened the average
life8211 spn, more and more old people were
seen to take an active part in the life of the
society. Throughout, Minois considers the
interrelation of literary, religious, medical
and political factors in the social fate of old
men and women and their relationship with the
rest of society.
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George M inois