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portada Old age in Late Medieval England (The Middle Ages Series)
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
1996
Language
English
Pages
288
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780812233551
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Old age in Late Medieval England (The Middle Ages Series)

Joel T. Rosenthal (Author) · University Of Pennsylvania Press · Hardcover

Old age in Late Medieval England (The Middle Ages Series) - Joel T. Rosenthal

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Synopsis "Old age in Late Medieval England (The Middle Ages Series) "

In Old Age in Late Medieval England, Joel T. Rosenthal explores the life spans, sustained activities, behaviors, and mentalites of the individuals who approached and who passed the biblically stipulated span of three score and ten in late medieval England. Drawing on a wide variety of documentary and court records (which were, however, more likely to specify with precision an individual's age on reaching majority or inheriting property than on the occasion of his or her death) as well as literary and didactic texts, he examines "old age" as a social construct and web of behavioral patterns woven around a biological phenomenon.Focusing on "lived experience" in late medieval England, Rosenthal uses demographic and quantitative records, family histories, and biographical information to demonstrate that many people lived into their sixth, seventh, and occasionally eighth decades. Those who survived might well live to know their grandchildren. This view of a society composed of the aged as well as of the young and the middle aged is reinforced by an examination of peers, bishops, and members of parliament and urban office holders, for whom demographic and career-length information exists. Many individuals had active careers until near the end of their lives; the aged were neither rarities nor outcasts within their world. Late medieval society recognized the concept of retirement, of old age pensions, and of the welcome release from duty for those who had served over the decades.

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