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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Susannah R Ottaway; L A Botelho; Katharine Kittredge |
| ISBN: | 0313311285 9780313311284 |
| OCLC Number: | 49415671 |
| Description: | xii, 294 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : Authority, autonomy, and responsibility among the aged in the pre-industrial past / Susannah R. Ottaway -- Aging and memory in a bureaucratizing world : a French historical experience / David G. Troyansky -- Poverty, patriarchy, and old age : the households of American Revolutionary War veterans, 1820-1830 / Jack Resch -- Social lives of elderly women in eighteenth-century Toulouse / Sherri Klassen -- Women and aging in transatlantic perspective / Anne Kugler -- Old people and the flow of resources between generations in Papal Rome, sixteenth to nineteenth centuries / Angela Groppi -- The experience of old age in the narratives of the rural poor in early modern Germany / Louise Gray -- "Labor and sorrow" : the living conditions of the elderly residents of Bocking, Essex, 1793-1807 / Jane Pearson -- Old age in early modern Castilian villages / David Vassberg -- Stereotypes and statistics : old women and accusations of witchcraft in early modern Europe / Alison Rowlands -- Naturalizing myths of aging : a cautionary tale / Kirk Combe and Kenneth Schmader -- Aging heroes, buffoons, and statesmen in Shakespeare's plays / Janice Rossen -- Images of old age in early modern cheap print : women, witches, and the poisonous female body / L.A. Botelho -- "The ag'd dame to venery inclin'd" : images of sexual older women in eighteenth-century Britain / Katharine Kittredge. |
| Series Title: | Contributions to the study of aging, no. 27 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Susannah R. Ottaway, L.A. Botelho, and Katharine Kittredge ; foreword by W.A. Achenbaum. |
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