The Long History of Old Age
Edited by Pat Thane
With texts by Tim Parkin
Shulamith Shahar
Lynn A. Botelho
David G. Troyansky
Thomas R. Cole
Claudia Edwards
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| ‘A brilliantly researched, beautifully illustrated collection of essays that warns of dangers ahead but ends as a touching tribute to the body’s resilience and the spirit’s durability’ | – Peter Conrad’s
‘Book of the Year’,
The Observer |
| ‘On every page there is something surprising, touching, or eye-opening and one marvels at the breadth of reference … to look at it is worth every penny…’ | | – Diana Athill, The Oldie |
| ‘Fascinating … many rich and beautiful illustrations will stay with me through my own declining years’ | – Joan Bakewell,
The Guardian |
How old is ‘old’?
How many people survived to old age?
Were the old respected and cared for?
Did sexuality survive into old age?
Here, for the first time, a group of leading historians address these and allied questions, writing vividly about a topic that has for too long been surrounded by taboo. The true history of old age is infinitely more varied than we have supposed.
The visual evidence is of major importance, and here the book is highly original. Drawing upon the rich legacy of art through two millennia, but looking beneath the surface in ways not always intended by the artists, it presents a picture that is sometimes compassionate, sometimes horrifying, but overall unexpectedly reassuring.
See the list of Contents and Authors
General Editor: Pat Thane, Leverhulme Professor of Contemporary History at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Among her other books is Old Age in English History.
Also of interest:
Medieval Panorama
The Panorama of the Renaissance
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500251266 | | ISBN-13 978-0500251263 | | | | 26.0 x 19.0 cm | | Hardback | | 320pp | | 231 illustrations, 108 in colour | | First published 2005 | | | | £25.00 | | | |  | | | | 
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