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Aging gracefully in the Renaissance : stories of later life from Petrarch to Montaigne
- Title
- Aging gracefully in the Renaissance : stories of later life from Petrarch to Montaigne / by Cynthia Skenazi.
- Author
- Skenazi, Cynthia
- Publication
- Leiden : Brill, [2013]
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- Description
- 178 pages : 1 color illustration; 25 cm
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts ; volume 11
- Uniform Title
- Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 11.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index.
- Access (note)
- This license allows you to download this work and share it with others as long as the author is credited, but it can not be changed in any way or used commercially.
- Contents
- A sound mind in a healthy body. Galen ; Petrarch ; Ficino and Zerbi ; Cornaro ; Erasmus ; Montaigne ; Conclusion -- The circulation of power and knowledge. Petrarch ; Castiglione ; Montaigne ; Conclusion -- Love in old age. Petrarch ; Ronsard ; Montaigne ; Pasquier; Conclusion -- Then and now. The care of the aging self ; Erasmus's colloquium "The old men's chat" ; A way of life and a mode of discourse : the case of Montaigne ; In vino veritas.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-4002
- ISBN
- 9789004254664
- 9004254668
- 9789004255722 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2013027542
- OCLC
- 853452480
- Author
- Skenazi, Cynthia, author.
- Title
- Aging gracefully in the Renaissance : stories of later life from Petrarch to Montaigne / by Cynthia Skenazi.
- Publisher
- Leiden : Brill, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts ; volume 11Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 11.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index.
- Access
- This license allows you to download this work and share it with others as long as the author is credited, but it can not be changed in any way or used commercially.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1450-1600
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-4002