Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age by Rosenwein, Barbara H.
Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age by Rosenwein, Barbara H.

Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age

One of The Daily Telegraph's Greatest Books of 2025 A life-affirming exploration of the rich emotional lives...
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Author: Barbara H. Rosenwein
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age by Rosenwein, Barbara H.

Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age

$36.00
Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age by Rosenwein, Barbara H.

Winter Dreams: A Historical Guide to Old Age

$36.00
Author: Barbara H. Rosenwein
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
One of The Daily Telegraph's Greatest Books of 2025

A life-affirming exploration of the rich emotional lives of the elderly across thousands of years of human history.

Winter Dreams is an evocative history of the ways the old have thought, felt, and expressed themselves over two millennia, tracking the experience of aging through artistic, literary, and historical records. While old age is often depicted as "sans teeth, sans eyes, sans everything," Barbara H. Rosenwein shows that the elderly have always retained their emotional depth and desires. She explores how these have changed over time, as societies' views of the elderly and a "good" old age have changed. Through careful critique of these texts, she allows the elderly, so often absent from the historical record, to speak to us.

We live in a rapidly aging society, yet ageism is rampant and death and dying are taboo subjects. Rosenwein's book is a finely wrought testimony to the value of aging and the richness of our "winter dreams."

Author: Barbara H. Rosenwein
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 09/09/2025
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.88w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781836390916


Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2026

About the Author
Barbara H. Rosenwein is a pioneering historian whose books explore the many ways in which different groups have experienced, valued, and expressed emotions over time. She is professor emerita at Loyola University Chicago.
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