Aging gracefully in the Renaissance : stories of later life from Petrarch to Montaigne

Aging gracefully in the Renaissance stories of later life from Petrarch to Montaigne

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 sub...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Skenazi, Cynthia (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden - Boston Brill 2013
Leiden [The Netherlands] : 2013.
Colección:Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 11.
Materias:
European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism.
Aging in literature.
Aging > Europe > History.
Older people > Europe > History.
Literature
History
Aging
Erasmus
Galen
Michel de Montaigne
Michel Foucault
Petrarch
Pierre de Ronsard
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423241306719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 A Sound Mind in a Healthy Body
  • 2 The Circulation of Power and Knowledge
  • 3 Love in Old Age
  • 4 Then and Now
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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