Early modem French culture expressed an extreme antipathy toward the aged, particularly toward their guarding of property but even toward their very survival. Sermonizers reviled property as a vain obstacle to passage to the next world, doctors explained vanity as the disease of the aged, and playwrights offered ugly old characters refusing to die or to relinquish their hold on the patrimony. But in the eighteenth century a major cultural change occurred. The plight of the aged came to be viewed with considerable compassion, the economic interest of the aged came to be recognized, and new means of support were suggested. Political discourse inherited this concern, and the image that emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century cast ...
National audienceCompared with other European countries, population ageing began particularly early ...
[Universidad de Santiago de Compostella, Santiago de Compostella - Vejez y envejecimiento poblaciona...
Cette thèse, qui conjugue des approches historiques et communicationnelles, se propose d interroger ...
Early modem French culture expressed an extreme antipathy toward the aged, particularly toward their...
This doctoral thesis combines historical and communication approaches, focusing on how old age is po...
This doctoral thesis combines historical and communication approaches, focusing on how old age is po...
This doctoral thesis combines historical and communication approaches, focusing on how old age is po...
The importance of the elderly in a society depends both on certain measurable factors and on the opi...
The importance of the elderly in a society depends both on certain measurable factors and on the opi...
The massive religious litterary production of the end of the roman period and the Early Middle Ages ...
The massive religious litterary production of the end of the roman period and the Early Middle Ages ...
National audienceCompared with other European countries, population ageing began particularly early ...
National audienceCompared with other European countries, population ageing began particularly early ...
National audienceCompared with other European countries, population ageing began particularly early ...
National audienceCompared with other European countries, population ageing began particularly early ...
National audienceCompared with other European countries, population ageing began particularly early ...
[Universidad de Santiago de Compostella, Santiago de Compostella - Vejez y envejecimiento poblaciona...
Cette thèse, qui conjugue des approches historiques et communicationnelles, se propose d interroger ...
Early modem French culture expressed an extreme antipathy toward the aged, particularly toward their...
This doctoral thesis combines historical and communication approaches, focusing on how old age is po...
This doctoral thesis combines historical and communication approaches, focusing on how old age is po...
This doctoral thesis combines historical and communication approaches, focusing on how old age is po...
The importance of the elderly in a society depends both on certain measurable factors and on the opi...
The importance of the elderly in a society depends both on certain measurable factors and on the opi...
The massive religious litterary production of the end of the roman period and the Early Middle Ages ...
The massive religious litterary production of the end of the roman period and the Early Middle Ages ...
National audienceCompared with other European countries, population ageing began particularly early ...
National audienceCompared with other European countries, population ageing began particularly early ...
National audienceCompared with other European countries, population ageing began particularly early ...
National audienceCompared with other European countries, population ageing began particularly early ...
National audienceCompared with other European countries, population ageing began particularly early ...
[Universidad de Santiago de Compostella, Santiago de Compostella - Vejez y envejecimiento poblaciona...
Cette thèse, qui conjugue des approches historiques et communicationnelles, se propose d interroger ...