| Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Contributor(s): Skenazi, Cynthia (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004254668 ISBN-13: 9789004254664 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $141.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Medieval |
| Dewey: 809.031 |
| LCCN: 2013027542 |
| Series: Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.3" W x 9.5" (1.00 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |