Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century FranceCornell University Press, 15 mei 2019 - 288 pagina's This book explores a dramatic change in French attitudes toward aging and the aged in the eighteenth century from one extreme of ridicule and neglect to another of respect and care. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Numbers and Meanings | 8 |
Images of the Aged in Art | 27 |
Literary Discourses on Old Age | 50 |
Religious and Secular Views | 77 |
Scientific and Medical Thought | 109 |
The Aged in the Rural Family | 125 |
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