Old age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary approaches to a neglected topic / / edited by Albrecht Classen
| Old age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary approaches to a neglected topic / / edited by Albrecht Classen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | vii, 575 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 809/.93354 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ClassenAlbrecht |
| Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Old age in literature
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism Old age - Europe - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 3-11-092599-0 |
| Classificazione | NW 7000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Also an Introduction / Classen, Albrecht -- Age and Style in Late Antique Epistolography: Symmachus' Polemics against the Rhetoric of the Old / Sogno, Cristiana -- Winter in Heorot: Looking at Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of Age and Kingship through the Character of Hrothgar / Rothauser, Britt C. L. -- Old Age and Women in the Carolingian World / Garver, Valerie L. -- The Withdrawal of Aged Noblemen into Monastic Communities: Interpreting the Sources from Twelfth-Century Germany / Lyon, Jonathan R. -- Medieval Latin Meditations on Old Age: Rhetoric, Autobiography, and Experience / Ruys, Juanita Feros -- Old Age in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Titurel / Lazda-Cazers, Rasma -- Old Age in the World of The Stricker and Other Middle High German Poets: A Neglected Topic / Classen, Albrecht -- Merlin, puer senex par excellence / Berthelot, Anne -- Age-Old Words of Wisdom: The Power of the Aged in Grail Literature / Jost, Jean Ε. -- Old Age and Medieval Misogyny: The Old Woman / Mieszkowski, Gretchen -- De vetula: the Figure of the Old Woman in Medieval French Literature / Pratt, Karen -- Celestina: The Power of Old Age / Scarborough, Connie L. -- Forty Years of Plague: Attitudes toward Old Age in the Tales of Boccaccio and Chaucer / Sandidge, Marilyn -- Jupiter and Saturn: Medieval Ideals of "Elde" / Peters, Harry -- Old Age, Narrative Form, and Epistemology in Langland's Piers Plowman: The Possibility of Learning / Pigg, Daniel F. -- "L'aage plus fort ennaye": Scienta mortis, Ars moriendi and Jean Gerson's Advice to an Old Man / Taylor, Scott L. -- Representations of Aging and Disability in Early Sixteenth-Century French Farce / Gordon, Sarah -- The Good, the Bad, and the Elderly: The Representation of Old Age in Netherlandish Prints (ca. 1550-1650) / Janssen, Anouk -- Hoorndragers and Hennetasters: The Old Impotent Cuckold as "Other" in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Art / Peacock, Martha -- A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man - with Emphasis on Titian / Bostock, Sophie -- The Sulzbach Jubilee: Old Age in Early Modern Europe and America / Coudert, Allison P. -- Contributors -- Index -- List of Illustrations |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910464223303321 |
| Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2007 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Old age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary approaches to a neglected topic / / edited by Albrecht Classen
| Old age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance [[electronic resource] ] : interdisciplinary approaches to a neglected topic / / edited by Albrecht Classen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | vii, 575 p. : ill |
| Disciplina | 809/.93354 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ClassenAlbrecht |
| Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Old age in literature
Literature, Medieval - History and criticism European literature - Renaissance, 1450-1600 - History and criticism Old age - Europe - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Early Modern Age
Late Antiquity Literature, History, and Art History Middle Ages Old Age Studies |
| ISBN | 3-11-092599-0 |
| Classificazione | NW 7000 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Also an Introduction / Classen, Albrecht -- Age and Style in Late Antique Epistolography: Symmachus' Polemics against the Rhetoric of the Old / Sogno, Cristiana -- Winter in Heorot: Looking at Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of Age and Kingship through the Character of Hrothgar / Rothauser, Britt C. L. -- Old Age and Women in the Carolingian World / Garver, Valerie L. -- The Withdrawal of Aged Noblemen into Monastic Communities: Interpreting the Sources from Twelfth-Century Germany / Lyon, Jonathan R. -- Medieval Latin Meditations on Old Age: Rhetoric, Autobiography, and Experience / Ruys, Juanita Feros -- Old Age in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Titurel / Lazda-Cazers, Rasma -- Old Age in the World of The Stricker and Other Middle High German Poets: A Neglected Topic / Classen, Albrecht -- Merlin, puer senex par excellence / Berthelot, Anne -- Age-Old Words of Wisdom: The Power of the Aged in Grail Literature / Jost, Jean Ε. -- Old Age and Medieval Misogyny: The Old Woman / Mieszkowski, Gretchen -- De vetula: the Figure of the Old Woman in Medieval French Literature / Pratt, Karen -- Celestina: The Power of Old Age / Scarborough, Connie L. -- Forty Years of Plague: Attitudes toward Old Age in the Tales of Boccaccio and Chaucer / Sandidge, Marilyn -- Jupiter and Saturn: Medieval Ideals of "Elde" / Peters, Harry -- Old Age, Narrative Form, and Epistemology in Langland's Piers Plowman: The Possibility of Learning / Pigg, Daniel F. -- "L'aage plus fort ennaye": Scienta mortis, Ars moriendi and Jean Gerson's Advice to an Old Man / Taylor, Scott L. -- Representations of Aging and Disability in Early Sixteenth-Century French Farce / Gordon, Sarah -- The Good, the Bad, and the Elderly: The Representation of Old Age in Netherlandish Prints (ca. 1550-1650) / Janssen, Anouk -- Hoorndragers and Hennetasters: The Old Impotent Cuckold as "Other" in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Art / Peacock, Martha -- A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man - with Emphasis on Titian / Bostock, Sophie -- The Sulzbach Jubilee: Old Age in Early Modern Europe and America / Coudert, Allison P. -- Contributors -- Index -- List of Illustrations |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788423603321 |
| Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2007 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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