Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance : : Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic / / ed. by Albrecht Classen.

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• MitwirkendeR: Berthelot, Anne,; Bostock, Sophie,; Classen, Albrecht,; Coudert, Allison P.,; Garver, Valerie L.,; Gordon, Sarah,; Janssen, Anouk,; Jost, Jean Ε.,; Lazda-Cazers, Rasma,; Lyon, Jonathan R.,; Mieszkowski, Gretchen,; Peacock, Martha,; Peters, Harry,; Pigg, Daniel F.,; Pratt, Karen,; Rothauser, Britt C. L.,; Ruys, Juanita Feros,; Sandidge, Marilyn,; Scarborough, Connie L.,; Sogno, Cristiana,; Taylor, Scott L.,
• HerausgeberIn: Classen, Albrecht,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2007
• Année de publication: 2012
• Langue: English
• Collection: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 2
• Description matérielle: 1 online resource (575 p.)

After an extensive introduction that takes stock of the relevant research literature on Old Age in the Middle Ages and the early modern age, the contributors discuss the phenomenon of old age in many different fields of late antique, medieval, and early modern literature, history, and art history. B...

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• Table of Contents
• Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Also an Introduction
• Age and Style in Late Antique Epistolography: Symmachus’ Polemics against the Rhetoric of the Old
• Winter in Heorot: Looking at Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of Age and Kingship through the Character of Hrothgar
• Old Age and Women in the Carolingian World
• The Withdrawal of Aged Noblemen into Monastic Communities: Interpreting the Sources from Twelfth-Century Germany
• Medieval Latin Meditations on Old Age: Rhetoric, Autobiography, and Experience
• Old Age in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival and Titurel
• Old Age in the World of The Stricker and Other Middle High German Poets: A Neglected Topic
• Merlin, puer senex par excellence
• Age-Old Words of Wisdom: The Power of the Aged in Grail Literature
• Old Age and Medieval Misogyny: The Old Woman
• De vetula: the Figure of the Old Woman in Medieval French Literature
• Celestina: The Power of Old Age
• Forty Years of Plague: Attitudes toward Old Age in the Tales of Boccaccio and Chaucer
• Jupiter and Saturn: Medieval Ideals of “Elde”
• Old Age, Narrative Form, and Epistemology in Langland’s Piers Plowman: The Possibility of Learning
• “L’aage plus fort ennaye”: Scienta mortis, Ars moriendi and Jean Gerson’s Advice to an Old Man
• Representations of Aging and Disability in Early Sixteenth-Century French Farce
• The Good, the Bad, and the Elderly: The Representation of Old Age in Netherlandish Prints (ca. 1550-1650)
• Hoorndragers and Hennetasters: The Old Impotent Cuckold as “Other” in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Art
• A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man – with Emphasis on Titian
• The Sulzbach Jubilee: Old Age in Early Modern Europe and America
• Contributors
• Index
• List of Illustrations