Old Age In The Middle Ages And The Renaissance
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Old Age In The Middle Ages And The Renaissance
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Author : Albrecht Classen
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2012-02-14
Old Age In The Middle Ages And The Renaissance written by Albrecht Classen and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
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. Both Beowulf and the Hildebrandslied, both Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Titurel, both the figure of Merlin and the trans-European tradition of Perceval/Peredur/Parzival, then the figure of the vetula in a variety of medieval French, English, and Spanish texts, and of the Old Man in The Stricker's Daniel, both the treatment of old age in Langland's Piers the Plowman and in Jean Gerson's sermons are dealt with. Other aspects involve late-antique epistolary literature, early modern French farce in light of Disability Studies, the social role of old, impotent men in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish paintings, and the scientific discourse of old age and health since the 1500s. The discourse of Old Age proves to have been of central importance throughout the ages, so the critical examination of the issues involved sheds intriguing light on the cultural history from late antiquity to the seventeenth century.
Growing Old In The Middle Ages
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Author : Shulamith Shahar
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
Growing Old In The Middle Ages written by Shulamith Shahar and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Aged categories.
This study draws a comprehensive picture of medieval old age in western Europe, combining primary sources and secondary litrature to produce a broad cultural history.
History Of Old Age
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Author : Georges Minois
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2012-07-16
History Of Old Age written by Georges Minois and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-16 with Social Science categories.
This book is the first major study of the ways in which old age was perceived in Western culture and society. Beginning from ancient Palestine and Classical Greece, Minois traces the changing conceptions of the nature, value and burden of the old. He shows how, in ancient Greece, the cult of youth and beauty, on the one hand, and the reverence for the figure of the Homeric sage, on the other, created an ambivalent attitude towards the aged. This ambiquity appears again in the contrast between the active role that senior citizens played in Roman politics, and their depiction in satirical literature of the period. Christian literature in the Middle Ages also played a large part in defining the society′s perception of the old, both in the image of the revered holy sage and in the total condemnation of the aged sinner. Minois traces the increasingly positive image of old age in various professions from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries. He shows how, as medical advances lengthened the average life–span, more and more old people were seen to take an active part in the life of the society. Throughout, Minois considers the interrelation of literary, religious, medical and political factors in the social fate of old men and women and their relationship with the rest of society.
Aging Gracefully In The Renaissance
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Author : Cynthia Skenazi
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-09-13
Aging Gracefully In The Renaissance written by Cynthia Skenazi and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with History categories.
In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Cynthia Skenazi explores a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time.
The Representations Of Elderly People In The Scenes Of Jesus Childhood In Tuscan Paintings 14th 16th Centuries
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Author : Welleda Muller
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2016-04-26
The Representations Of Elderly People In The Scenes Of Jesus Childhood In Tuscan Paintings 14th 16th Centuries written by Welleda Muller and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with Art categories.
This book is the result of a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut (Max Planck Institute) in Florence, Italy, in collaboration with the MaxNetAging Research School in Rostock, Germany. Adopting an innovative approach, it leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. By studying both the images of elderly people in the scenes of Jesus’ Childhood and the primary sources dealing with old age, the book reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.
History Of Old Age
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Author : Georges Minois
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
History Of Old Age written by Georges Minois and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Old age categories.
Old Age In Late Medieval England
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Author : Joel T. Rosenthal
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1996-08-29
Old Age In Late Medieval England written by Joel T. Rosenthal and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-29 with History categories.
This view of a society composed of the aged as well as of the young and the middle aged is reinforced by an examination of peers, bishops, and members of parliament and urban office holders, for whom demographic and career-length information exists. Many individuals had active careers until near the end of their lives; the aged were neither rarities nor outcasts within their world.
Reinventing The Middle Ages The Renaissance
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Author : William F. Gentrup
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 1998
Reinventing The Middle Ages The Renaissance written by William F. Gentrup and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
The fourteen essays presented in this volume contribute substantially to the study of the reinvention of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. They take an historicized approach to constructions of the past, and most address the relatively new field of Medievalism. All of them focus on how and why the present of any period uses the past to promote its own opinions, beliefs, doctrines or views. In particular, the volume demonstrates that reinventions of past eras or figures can be motivated by a nationalistic desire to create cultural 'roots', to discover origins that justify a regime or group's self-identity, to appropriate a cultural icon or neglected author for a particular political agenda, or to reflect on contemporary social issues via a remote time and place. Reworkings or adaptations of earlier culture often tell us more about the age in which they were produced than the one revived or revisited. This volume features five essays that treat medieval subjects; four focus on Tudor and Stuart figures, religion or politics; and five concentrate on nineteenth-century uses of medieval or early modern events, literary conventions, settings and themes.
On Old Age
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Author : Christian Krötzl
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 2011
On Old Age written by Christian Krötzl and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Civilization, Classical categories.
Research into old age and dying in the pre-modern world has examined not only the demographic aspects of ageing populations but also the social role of aged people. The volume, with its diverse topics, cuts across traditional scholarly barriers and provides valuable analytical tools for further studies on the subject.
Aging And The Aged In Medieval Europe
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Author : University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies. Conference
language : en
Publisher: PIMS
Release Date : 1990
Aging And The Aged In Medieval Europe written by University of Toronto. Centre for Medieval Studies. Conference and has been published by PIMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.