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Winter Dreams : A Historical Guide to Old Age - Professor Barbara H. Rosenwein Publication Date:01/07/2025 "Incredibly entertaining and intelligentOne of Daily Telegraph's Greatest Books of 2025. Winter Dreams is an evocative history of the ways the old have thought, felt and expressed themselves over two millennia, tracking the experience of ageing through artistic, literary and historical records. While old age is often depicted as `sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything', Barbara H. Rosenwein shows that the elderly have always retained their emotional depth and desires. She