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Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic (Hardcover)
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Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance - Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic (Hardcover)
Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
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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.
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