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oapen-20.500.12657-334572021-04-30T08:32:20Z Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance - Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Skenazi, Cynthia literature history aging Erasmus Galen Michel de Montaigne Michel Foucault Petrarch Pierre de Ronsard bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. 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. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. 2018-06-27 23:55 2014-03-26 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:47:21Z 2020-04-01T14:47:21Z 2013 book 470831 OCN: 858861444 0925-7683 9789004254664 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33457 eng Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts application/pdf n/a 470831.pdf http://www.brill.com/aging-gracefully-renaissance Brill 10.1163/9789004255722 10.1163/9789004255722 af16fd4b-42a1-46ed-82e8-c5e880252026 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9789004254664 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 192 Leiden - Boston KU Pilot Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. 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.
This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.
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