Aging gracefully in the Renaissance : stories of later life from Petrarch to Montaigne / by Cynthia Skenazi.
2013
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Title
Aging gracefully in the Renaissance : stories of later life from Petrarch to Montaigne / by Cynthia Skenazi.
Published
Leiden : Brill, 2013.
Description
178 pages : 1 color illustration ; 25 cm
Associated name
Series statement
Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts ; volume 11
Note
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.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-176) and index.
Series
Medieval and Renaissance authors and texts ; v. 11.
Place of creation/publication
Netherlands.
Call number
PN721 .S54 2013