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Aging gracefully in the Renaissance : stories of later life from Petrarch to Montaigne / by Cynthia Skenazi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Skenazi, Cynthia.
- Series:
- Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 11.
- Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts, 0925-7683 ; volume 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600--History and criticism.
- European literature.
- Aging in literature.
- Aging--Europe--History.
- Aging.
- Older people--Europe--History.
- Older people.
- Genre:
- Anthologies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden - Boston Brill 2013
- Leiden [The Netherlands] : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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. From the late fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth centuries, the elderly subject became a point of new social, medical, political, and literary attention on both sides of the Alps. A movement of secularization tended to dissociate old age from the Christian preparation for death, re-orienting the concept of aging around pragmatic matters such as health care, intergenerational relationships, and accrued insights one might wish to pass along. Such changes were accompanied by an increasing number of personal accounts of later life. Listed by Choice magazine as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2014 This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction
- 1 A Sound Mind in a Healthy Body
- 2 The Circulation of Power and Knowledge
- 3 Love in Old Age
- 4 Then and Now
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789004255722
- 9004255729
- OCLC:
- 858861444
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004255722 DOI
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