num_pages: 254
description: Based on themes such as status and welfare, Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity examines the role of the elderly in history. This empirical study represents a substantial contribution to both the historical understanding of old age in past societies as well as the discussion of the contribution of post-modernism to historical scholarship.
language: English
title: Old Age: From Antiquity to Post-Modernity
titlecomplete: Old Age: From Antiquity to Post-Modernity (Studies in Cultural History 1)
publisher: Routledge