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<html> <head><meta http-equiv=content-type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></head> <body> <p>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 <EM>Beowulf </EM>and the <EM>Hildebrandslied</EM>, both Wolfram von Eschenbach's <EM>Parzival </EM>and <EM>Titurel</EM>, both the figure of Merlin and the trans-European tradition of Perceval/Peredur/Parzival, then the figure of the <EM>vetula </EM>in a variety of medieval French, English, and Spanish texts, and of the Old Man in The Stricker's <EM>Daniel</EM>, both the treatment of old age in Langland's <EM>Piers the Plowman </EM>and in Jean Gerson's sermons are dealt with. Other aspects involve late-antique epistolary literature, early modern French <EM>farce </EM>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 1500s. The discourse of Old A

Author

Classen, Albrecht

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110925999