This volume treats old age and old people as reflected in medieval and early modern literature, historical documents, and visual products, offering innovative perspectives, examining hitherto neglected texts and art works, and taking stock of previous research. With this volume Old Age Studies pertaining to the Middle Ages and the early modern world can claim to have established a solid scholarly profile, adding new layers of meaning in our investigation of the culture and history of premodern mentality.
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Albrecht Classen, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance is a 582-575?page interdisciplinary scholarly volume edited by Albrecht Classen and published by De Gruyter in 2007. It examines how aging and the elderly were represented, understood, and experienced across late antiquity, the medieval period, and the early modern era. Contributors analyze depictions of old age in literature (Beowulf, Hildebrandslied, Parzival, Piers Plowman), religious writings, epistolary texts, visual art, and historical documents, revealing how premodern societies conceptualized wisdom, decline, authority, gender, disability, and social roles associated with aging. The volume highlights both positive and negative portrayals, showing how old age could signify spiritual authority, frailty, comic relief, or moral instruction depending on cultural context. ?? Why It Matters This is one of the earliest and most influential volumes in the Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture series, and it helped establish Old Age Studies as a recognized scholarly field. Reviewers praise it as "more than the sum of its parts," noting its innovative perspectives and its ability to synthesize literary, historical, and art?historical evidence into a cohesive cultural analysis. Because aging intersects with gender, disability, religion, medicine, and social history, the book remains widely cited and relevant across multiple disciplines. Retail pricing for new copies ranges from $157 to over $244, with used copies often still above $58-$160, reflecting the limited print run and strong institutional demand typical of De Gruyter monographs. ? Ideal For Medievalists & early modern historians studying social structures, identity, or life?cycle studies Literary scholars analyzing depictions of aging in medieval and Renaissance texts Art historians examining portrayals of elderly figures in visual culture Researchers in gender studies, disability studies, or gerontology University libraries expanding holdings in medieval cultural studies Collectors of De Gruyter academic monographs seeking scarce early?series volumes. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1791941109315
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 584 pp. Englisch. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783110195484
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Hardback. Zustand: New. 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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9783110195484
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