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Shulamith Shahar.
Growing Old in the Middle Ages: ‘Winter Clothes us in Shadow and Pain’.
Published London: Routledge, 2004 (reprints the 1997 edn. with a new preface; original Hebrew edn. was 1995).
ISBN 0415333601;
ISBN-13: 9780415333603.
Binding: paperback, stitch bound.
Printer: TJ International, Padstow.
Size: 156x232x20mm.
Page count: xiii,243pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some mild scuffs on its covers, a bit of wear on the edges and corners, but the spine is not creased from reading; printed on low-grade paper so the pages are a bit yellowed with age, and at least 1 page has a pencilled sideline in the margin.

This item £10.00
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[Publisher’s price £35.00]
Weight without packaging: 421g.

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Contents: Intro. — history of old age in medieval Europe; Who were the old in the Middle Ages?; The old body; Transcending age, transcending the body; Who and what is an old man, & how he should conduct himself; ‘Honour thy father & thy mother’; Churchmen in the old age; Old age in the ranks of rulers & soldiers; -- in urban society; -- in the peasantry; The old & charitable organizations.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 18pp
Index: yes

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