The goal of the twelve essays in this volume, contributed by
scholars in the fields of history, literature, art history, and
medicine, is to enrich our understanding of cultural discourses on
ageing in early modern Europe. While a number of books examine old
age in other eras, and a few touch on the early modern period, this
is the first to focus explicitly on representations of ageing in
Europe from 1350-1700. These studies invite the reader to take a
closer look at images of ageing; they show that representations are
embedded in specific communities, life situations, and structures
of power. As well, the book explores how representations of old age
function in various and often surprising ways: as repositories of
socio-cultural anxieties, as strategies of self-fashioning, and as
instruments of ideology capable of disciplining the body and the
body politic. Since this book is about how old age as a cultural
category was produced and maintained through representation, the
essays in this volume are organised thematically across geographic,
disciplinary, and media boundaries to foreground the politics and
poetics of representational strategies. The contributors to this
collection show that our understanding not only of ageing, but also
of power, subjectivity, gender, sexuality, and the body is enriched
by the study of cultural representations of old age. Through
sensitive and sophisticated readings of a wide range of sources,
these papers collectively demonstrate the formative influence and
generative force of images of old age within early modern European
culture.
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