Ageing in medieval Jewish culture

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• Note on Transliteration = xii
• List of Abbreviations = xiv
• Introduction = 1
• PART I. CONCEPTIONS AND PERCEPTIONS OF AGEING
• Introduction = 25
• 1. How Old Is Old? = 28
• The Ages of Man = 28
• The Onset of Ageing = 36
• Early-Onset Ageing = 44
• Ageing and Gender = 57
• 2. Longevity and Its Limits = 63
• The Question of Longevity in Judaism and Islam = 63
• Divine Providence or Human Agency? = 80
• Length of Years from the Primordial Past to the Messianic Future = 88
• 3. Ageing Body, Ageing Mind = 95
• Coming to Terms with Old Age = 95
• Indignities of Age = 99
• Medieval Gerontology : From Elder Care to Preventative Care = 113
• An Enduring Optimism = 124
• Conclusion = 127
• PART II. AGEING IN FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
• Introduction = 133
• 4. Grandparents and the Multigenerational Home = 137
• Elders and the Extended Family = 137
• The Multigenerational Household = 140
• Grandparents In Loco Parentis = 156
• 5. Family Networks of Care = 165
• Retirement and Financial Dependence = 165
• Filial Duty and Familial Care = 169
• Alternative Family Units : Remarriage in Old Age = 179
• Dependence Revisited : Models of Care in Old Age = 196
• 6. Community Support = 199
• Between Family and Community : Filial Piety in the Breach = 199
• Appeals for Aid = 204
• Communal Welfare = 212
• Help at Home = 219
• Personal Care and the Communal Safety Net = 225
• Conclusion = 228
• PART III. IDEAS AND IDEALS OF OLD AGE
• Introduction = 235
• 7. The Dignity of Age = 237
• Learning to Act One's Age = 237
• Ethics of Ageing = 241
• The Undignified Elder : The Old Fool and Licentious Old Man = 248
• Honouring Elders = 254
• Between Dignity and Indignity = 264
• 8. Facing Mortality : Towards a Hebrew Poetics of Ageing = 268
• A Call to Consciousness = 268
• If Not Now, When? = 278
• Youthful Bodies, Old Souls = 284
• Towards a Jewish Poetics of Ageing : Reinvention of a Paradigm = 293
• 9. The Sabbath of Life : Age and Wisdom in Medieval Jewish Thought = 300
• Ageing and Wisdom : A New Paradigm = 300
• Old Age and the Philosophical Ideal : Tracing the Tradition = 305
• Applications of the New Paradigm = 319
• Approaching the Sabbath of Life = 324
• Conclusion = 332
• Appendix : Life Expectancy and Medieval Mediterranean Jewry = 335
• Afterword : On an Integrative Approach to the Study of Old Age = 345
• Bibliography = 353
• Index = 387