| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 575 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 2 |
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Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture ; 2.
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| Contents |
Pages:1 to 29; Pages:30 to 58; Pages:59 to 87; Pages:88 to 116; Pages:117 to 145; Pages:146 to 174; Pages:175 to 203; Pages:204 to 232; Pages:233 to 261; Pages:262 to 290; Pages:291 to 319; Pages:320 to 348; Pages:349 to 377; Pages:378 to 406; Pages:407 to 435; Pages:436 to 464; Pages:465 to 493; Pages:494 to 522; Pages:523 to 551; Pages:552 to 580; Pages:581 to 584 |
| Summary |
After an extensive introduction that takes stock of the relevant research literature on Old Age in the Middle Ages and the early modern age, the contributors discuss the phenomenon of old age in many different fields of late antique, medieval, and early modern literature, history, and art history. Both Beowulf and the Hildebrandslied, both Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Titurel, both the figure of Merlin and the trans-European tradition of Perceval/Peredur/Parzival, then the figure of the vetula in a variety of medieval French, English, and Spanish texts, and of the Old Man in The Stricker's Daniel, both the treatment of old age in Langland's Piers the Plowman and in Jean Gerson's sermons are dealt with. Other aspects involve late-antique epistolary literature, early modern French farce in light of Disability Studies, the social role of old, impotent men in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Netherlandish paintings, and the scientific discourse of old age and health since the 1500's. The discourse of Old Age proves to have been of central importance throughout the ages, so the critical examination of the issues involved sheds intriguing light on the cultural history from late antiquity to the seventeenth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Old age in literature.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism
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Old age -- Europe -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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European literature -- Renaissance
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Literature, Medieval
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Old age
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Old age in literature
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Literatur
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Alter Motiv
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Kunst
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Bellettrie.
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Ouderdom.
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Ålderdomen i litteraturen.
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Litteratur -- historia -- medeltiden -- renässansen.
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Europe
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Classen, Albrecht.
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| LC no. |
2007015534 |
| ISBN |
9783110925999 |
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3110925990 |
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3110195488 |
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9783110195484 |
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