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Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004254664)
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xIn 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.
Listed by Choice magazine as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2014
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access
Author: Cynthia Skenazi
ISBN-10: 9004254668
ISBN-13: 9789004254664
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2013
Pages: 178
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2014
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.
Listed by Choice magazine as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2014
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access
Author: Cynthia Skenazi
ISBN-10: 9004254668
ISBN-13: 9789004254664
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/13/2013
Pages: 178
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.30w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2014
By Cynthia Skenazi
xCynthia Skenazi is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published books and many articles on Renaissance literature and culture, including Le Poète architecte en France. Constructions d'un imaginaire monarchique (Champion, 2003).
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