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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Skenazi, Cynthia (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
Colección:Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 11.
Temas:
1450-1600
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Aging in literature.
Aging > Europe > History.
Older people > Europe > History.
Adulthood.
Older people.
Aging.
Medicine, Medieval.
History.
Humanities.
Literature, Medieval.
Adult
Age Groups
Aged
Aging
Growth and Development
History, Medieval
History
Humanities
Literature, Medieval
Literature
Named Groups
Persons
Phenomena and Processes
Physiological Phenomena
Littérature européenne > 1450-1600 (Renaissance) > Histoire et critique.
Vieillissement dans la littérature.
Vieillissement > Europe > Histoire.
Personnes âgées > Europe > Histoire.
Adultes.
Personnes âgées.
Vieillissement.
Médecine médiévale.
Histoire.
Sciences humaines.
Littérature médiévale.
Littérature.
elderly.
history (discipline)
humanities.
Literature and literary studies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
HISTORY > General.
Medicine, Medieval
Adulthood
Aging in literature
European literature > Renaissance
Older people
Ouderdom.
Europe
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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