Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne (Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts, Band 11) - Hardcover

Skenazi, Cynthia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004254668 ISBN 13: 9789004254664

Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV, 2013

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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.

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Cynthia Skenazi is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published books and many articles on Renaissance literature and culture, including Le Poète architecte en France. Constructions d'un imaginaire monarchique (Champion, 2003).

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• Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9004254668
• ISBN 13: 9789004254664
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194
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