On old age
Subtitle: approaching death in antiquity and the Middle Ages
By: edited by Christian Krötzl, Katariina Mustakallio
Series: History of daily life -- v. 2; History of daily life -- v. 2.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9782503532165
Subjects: Äldre; Death; Attitude to Death; Mittelalter; Old age in literature; Antike; Death in literature; Attitudes; Sociala aspekter; Döden; Ålderdomen i litteraturen; Tod; Kollektives Gedächtnis; Civilization, Greco-Roman; Social aspects; Alter; Historia; Ancient Funeral rites and ceremonies; Medieval Civilization; Classical Civilization; Old age; Beurteilung; History; Gesellschaft; Medieval Funeral rites and ceremonies; Roman World; Greek World; Ålderdomen; Funeral Rites; Cross-cultural studies; Ancient History; Medieval History; Older people; Aged
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I :; title: Coping with old age and death :; title: views and values --; title: Viewing the old :; title: recording and respecting the elderly at Rome and in the empire  -- Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence; title: The elderly children of Greece and Rome  -- Tim Parkin; title: Representing older women :; title: hersilia, veturia, Virgio Vestalis Maxima  -- Katariina Mustakallio; title: The changing face of death :; title: the iconography of the personification of death of the early Middle Ages  -- Jill Bradley; title: 'I wish my body to hallowed ground' :; title: Testamentary orders of the Burghers of late Medieval Pressburg about their own burial  -- Judit Majorossy -- Part II :; title: Social meaning of old age and death --; title: Old age as a principle of social organization :; title: Gerousiai in the Poleis of Hellenistic and Roman southern Asia Minor  -- Ennio Bauer; title: The massacre of old men by the Gauls in 390 BC and the social meaning of old age in early Rome  -- Aleksandr Koptev; title: What happened to aged priests in the late Middle Ages?  -- Kirsi Salonen; title: Coping with old age in Medieval Hungarian towns  -- Katalin Szende; title: Burials and politics of the living and the dead in Scotland and Pomerania in the high Middle Ages :; title: the case to two Cistercian monasteries  -- Emilia Jamroziak -- Part III :; title: Coping with death :; title: remembrance and oblivion --; title: No place for the dead :; title: Ludi Saeculares of 17 BC and the purificatory cults of May as part of the Roman ritual year  -- Jussi Rantala; title: Disease, death, destiny :; title: the healer as Soter in miraculous cures  -- Ildikó Csepregi; title: Medical perspectives on death in late Medieval and early modern Europe  -- Iona McCleery; title: Who deserves the crown of Martydom?; title: Martyrs in the Crusade ideology of Jacques de Vitry (1160/70-1240)  -- Mikka Tamminen; title: Rituals and reputation :; title: immature death in the fourteenth-century canonization processes  -- Sari Katajala-Peltomaa; title: Pulpits and tombs in Renaissance Florence -- Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby.