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Auteur(s) : Skenazi, Cynthia
Titre(s) : Aging gracefully in the Renaissance [Texte imprimé] : stories of later life from Petrarch to Montaigne / by Cynthia Skenazi
Publication : Leiden : Brill, 2013
Description matérielle : 178 pages : 1 color illustration ; 25 cm
Collection : Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; volume 11
Lien à la collection : Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index
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
Sujet(s) : Vieillissement -- Dans la littérature -- Renaissance
Genre ou forme : Littérature de la Renaissance
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789004254664 (hardback) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9004254668 (hardback) (alk. paper).
- ISBN 9789004255722 (erroné) (e-book) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43768393x
Notice n° :
FRBNF43768393
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