TY  - GEN
AU  - Skenazi,Cynthia
TI  - Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance : Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne
SN  - 9789004255722
PY  - 2013///1101
CY  - Leiden - Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Literature & literary studies
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Literature
KW  - History
KW  - Aging
KW  - Erasmus
KW  - Galen
KW  - Michel de Montaigne
KW  - Michel Foucault
KW  - Petrarch
KW  - Pierre de Ronsard
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30150/1/649950.pdf
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UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38164
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