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The Ages of Man : Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle /
Elizabeth Sears here combines rich visual material and textual evidence to reveal the sophistication, warmth, and humor of medieval speculations about the ages of man. Medieval artists illustrated this theme, establishing the convention that each of life's phases in turn was to be represented b...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
1986.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The seasons of life
- Sevens in the life cycle
- The ages of man and the ages of world history
- Times of conversion in the human life
- Popular cosmology
- The ages of man in the preacher's repertory
- The moralized life in images.