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Article: Growing Old in the Middle Ages: 'Winter Clothes Us in Shadow and Pain.'.(Review)
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- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- June 22, 1999
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By Shulamith Shahar (New York and London: Routledge, 1997. ix plus 243pp. $69.95).
Having already written books on women and on children in the Middle Ages (The Fourth Estate, 1983, and Childhood in the Middle Ages, 1990), Shulamith Shahar now turns her attention to the elderly. This group, she argues, was the third major sector of society marginalized by the dominant adult male culture.
The book is intended as an overview of its subject, which has never before been treated in this depth. Shahar covers the period from the late eleventh century through the fifteenth century, focusing on England, France, and Italy. The Italian Renaissance is included; the ...