Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Faculty Member, History

University Professor; Distinguished Professor for Research; Professor of History

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The study of old age and aging in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England has been the focus of my entire academic career, starting as a graduate student at Cambridge University and continuing through to my current project, which promises to be the culmination of over two decades of reading, research and writing.  Simply called The Ageing Body, this is a 'big book' in terms of its approach and scope.  While firmly grounded in and based on traditional archival scholarship and historical method, using both manuscripts and early printed books, The Ageing Body engages with a variety of theoretical discourses, including studies of masculinity and femininity, the culturally constructed body, and the history of medicine.  In producing a fuller understanding of what it meant to be old in early modern England, this book promises to be the first wide-ranging study on old age in this period of European history. 

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