{"product_id":"old-age-in-the-middle-ages-and-the-renaissance-interdisciplinary-approaches-to-a-neglected-topic-9783110195484","title":"Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Neglected Topic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter 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 \u003cem\u003eBeowulf \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem\u003eHildebrandslied\u003c\/em\u003e, both Wolfram von Eschenbach's \u003cem\u003eParzival \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eTiturel\u003c\/em\u003e, both the figure of Merlin and the trans-European tradition of Perceval\/Peredur\/Parzival, then the figure of the \u003cem\u003evetula \u003c\/em\u003ein a variety of medieval French, English, and Spanish texts, and of the Old Man in The Stricker's \u003cem\u003eDaniel\u003c\/em\u003e, both the treatment of old age in Langland's \u003cem\u003ePiers the Plowman \u003c\/em\u003eand in Jean Gerson's sermons are dealt with. Other aspects involve late-antique epistolary literature, early modern French \u003cem\u003efarce \u003c\/em\u003ein 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 1500s. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A collection of this nature is more than the sum of its parts. The closely argued and detailed evidence of each contribution provides stimulating cross-currents, carefully marshalled by the Introduction to give a valuable resource for further work on Old Age Studies.\"Rosalind Field in: Archiv fur das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 2\/2009 \"This is a stimulating and often fascinating assembly of viewpoints and material that will justly elicit and provoke further research and reflection.\"Robert G. Sullivan in: Monatshefte 4\/2008","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516394430807,"sku":"9783110195484","price":142.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/old-age-in-the-middle-ages-and-the-renaissance-interdisciplinary-approaches-to-a-neglected-topic-9783110195484","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}