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Growing Old in Early Modern Europe

Author : ErinJ. Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351564846
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Growing Old in Early Modern Europe written by ErinJ. Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The goal of the twelve essays in this volume, contributed by scholars in the fields of history, literature, art history, and medicine, is to enrich our understanding of cultural discourses on ageing in early modern Europe. While a number of books examine old age in other eras, and a few touch on the early modern period, this is the first to focus explicitly on representations of ageing in Europe from 1350-1700. These studies invite the reader to take a closer look at images of ageing; they show that representations are embedded in specific communities, life situations, and structures of power. As well, the book explores how representations of old age function in various and often surprising ways: as repositories of socio-cultural anxieties, as strategies of self-fashioning, and as instruments of ideology capable of disciplining the body and the body politic. Since this book is about how old age as a cultural category was produced and maintained through representation, the essays in this volume are organised thematically across geographic, disciplinary, and media boundaries to foreground the politics and poetics of representational strategies. The contributors to this collection show that our understanding not only of ageing, but also of power, subjectivity, gender, sexuality, and the body is enriched by the study of cultural representations of old age. Through sensitive and sophisticated readings of a wide range of sources, these papers collectively demonstrate the formative influence and generative force of images of old age within early modern European culture.

Growing Old in Early Modern Europe: Cultural Representations

Author : ErinJ. Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315093352
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Growing Old in Early Modern Europe: Cultural Representations written by ErinJ. Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The goal of the twelve essays in this volume, contributed by scholars in the fields of history, literature, art history, and medicine, is to enrich our understanding of cultural discourses on ageing in early modern Europe. While a number of books examine old age in other eras, and a few touch on the early modern period, this is the first to focus explicitly on representations of ageing in Europe from 1350-1700. These studies invite the reader to take a closer look at images of ageing; they show that representations are embedded in specific communities, life situations, and structures of power. As well, the book explores how representations of old age function in various and often surprising ways: as repositories of socio-cultural anxieties, as strategies of self-fashioning, and as instruments of ideology capable of disciplining the body and the body politic. Since this book is about how old age as a cultural category was produced and maintained through representation, the essays in this volume are organised thematically across geographic, disciplinary, and media boundaries to foreground the politics and poetics of representational strategies. The contributors to this collection show that our understanding not only of ageing, but also of power, subjectivity, gender, sexuality, and the body is enriched by the study of cultural representations of old age. Through sensitive and sophisticated readings of a wide range of sources, these papers collectively demonstrate the formative influence and generative force of images of old age within early modern European culture."--Provided by publisher.

Growing Old in the Middle Ages

Author : Shulamith Shahar
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415333603
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (336 download)

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Download or read book Growing Old in the Middle Ages written by Shulamith Shahar and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study draws a comprehensive picture of medieval old age in western Europe, combining primary sources and secondary litrature to produce a broad cultural history.

Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110925990
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Beowulf and the Hildebrandslied, both Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and Titurel, both the figure of Merlin and the trans-European tradition of Perceval/Peredur/Parzival, then the figure of the vetula in a variety of medieval French, English, and Spanish texts, and of the Old Man in The Stricker's Daniel, both the treatment of old age in Langland's Piers the Plowman and in Jean Gerson's sermons are dealt with. Other aspects involve late-antique epistolary literature, early modern French farce 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 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.

Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior

Author : Erin J. Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131708604X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior written by Erin J. Campbell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though portraits of old women mediate cultural preoccupations just as effectively as those of younger women, the scant published research on images of older women belies their significance within early modern Italy. This study examines the remarkable flowering, largely overlooked in portraiture scholarship to date, of portraits of old women in Northern Italy and especially Bologna during the second half of the sixteenth century, when, as a result of religious reform, the lives of women and the family came under increasing scrutiny. Old Women and Art in the Early Modern Italian Domestic Interior draws on a wide range of primary visual sources, including portraits, religious images, architectural views, prints and drawings, as well as extant palazzi and case, furnishings, and domestic objects created by the leading artists in Bologna, including Lavinia Fontana, Bartolomeo Passerotti, Denys Calvaert, and the Carracci. The study also draws on an array of historical sources - including sixteenth-century theories of portraiture, prescriptive writings on women and the family, philosophical and practical treatises on the home economy, sumptuary legislation, books of secrets, prescriptive writings on old age, and household inventories - to provide new historical perspectives on the domestic life of the propertied classes in Bologna during the period. Author Erin Campbell contends that these images of unidentified women are not only crucial to our understanding of the cultural operations of art within the early modern world, but also, by working from the margins to revise the center, provide an opportunity to present new conceptual frameworks and question our assumptions about old age, portraiture, and the domestic interior.

The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe

Author : Jane Couchman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317041054
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe by : Jane Couchman

Download or read book The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe written by Jane Couchman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine women’s lives, ideologies of gender, and the differences between ideology and reality through the recent research across many disciplines, including history, literary studies, art history, musicology, history of science and medicine, and religious studies. The book is intended as a resource for scholars and students of Europe in the early modern period, for those who are just beginning to explore these issues and this time period, as well as for scholars learning about aspects of the field in which they are not yet an expert. The companion offers not only a comprehensive examination of the current research on women in early modern Europe, but will act as a spark for new research in the field.

Early Modern Art Theory. Visual Culture and Ideology, 1400-1700

Author : James Hutson
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3954899973
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Art Theory. Visual Culture and Ideology, 1400-1700 written by James Hutson and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of art theory over the course of the Renaissance and Baroque eras is reflected in major stylistic shifts. In order to elucidate the relationship between theory and practice, we must consider the wider connections between art theory, poetic theory, natural philosophy, and related epistemological matrices. Investigating the interdisciplinary reality of framing art-making and interpretation, this treatment rejects the dominant synchronic approach to history and historiography and seeks to present anew a narrative that ties together various formal approaches, focusing on stylistic transformation in particular artist’s oeuvres – Michelangelo, Annibale Carracci, Guercino, Guido Reni, Poussin, and others – and the contemporary environments that facilitated them. Through the dual understanding of the art-theoretical concept of the Idea, an evolution will be revealed that illustrates the embittered battles over style and the overarching intellectual shifts in the period between art production and conceptualization based on Aristotelian and Platonic notions of creativity, beauty and the goal of art as an exercise in encapsulating the “divine” truth of nature.

Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine

Author : Daniel Schäfer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317324102
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine written by Daniel Schäfer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding old age and disease.

The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe

Author : Amanda L. Capern
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000709590
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe written by Amanda L. Capern and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe is a comprehensive and ground-breaking survey of the lives of women in early-modern Europe between 1450 and 1750. Covering a period of dramatic political and cultural change, the book challenges the current contours and chronologies of European history by observing them through the lens of female experience. The collaborative research of this book covers four themes: the affective world; practical knowledge for life; politics and religion; arts, science and humanities. These themes are interwoven through the chapters, which encompass all areas of women’s lives: sexuality, emotions, health and wellbeing, educational attainment, litigation and the practical and leisured application of knowledge, skills and artistry from medicine to theology. The intellectual lives of women, through reading and writing, and their spirituality and engagement with the material world, are also explored. So too is the sheer energy of female work, including farming and manufacture, skilled craft and artwork, theatrical work and scientific enquiry. The Routledge History of Women in Early Modern Europe revises the chronological and ideological parameters of early-modern European history by opening the reader’s eyes to an exciting age of female productivity, social engagement and political activism across European and transatlantic boundaries. It is essential reading for students and researchers of early-modern history, the history of women and gender studies.

The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe

Author : Andrea Brady
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135191964
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Uses of the Future in Early Modern Europe written by Andrea Brady and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is modernity synonymous with progress? Did the Renaissance really break with the cyclical, agrarian time of the Middle Ages, inaugurating a new concept of irreversible time in a secular culture defined by development? How does methodology affect scholarly responses to the idea of the future in the past? This collection of interdisciplinary essays from the fields of literary criticism, cultural studies, politics and intellectual history offers new answers to these commonplace questions. They explore elite and popular culture, women and men’s experiences, and the encounter between East and West, providing a comparative view on the range of personal, political and social practices with which early modern people planned for, imagined, manipulated or even rejected the future. Examining poetry, architecture, colonial exploration, technology, drama, satire, wills, childbirth and deathbed rituals, humanism, religious radicalism and republicanism, this collection provides new readings of canonical early modern texts and insights into popular culture. With a foreword by Peter Burke.

Women in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700

Author : Cissie C. Fairchilds
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 9780582357181
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Women in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700 written by Cissie C. Fairchilds and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2007 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging volume, Cissie Fairchilds rejects conventional accounts of the Early Modern period that claim it was a period of diminishing power and rights for European women. Instead, she shows that it was a period of positive changes that challenged and led to the eventual destruction of traditional misogynist notions that women were inferior to men. The book explores the historical basis of patriarchal views of women and describes the great intellectual debate over the nature and roles of women taking place at the time. It gives an account of women's daily lives and looks at women's work during the period. The book also deals with the role of women in religion and with witchcraft and the prosecution of women as witches. The book concludes by examining the relationship between women and the State.

Disgust in Early Modern English Literature

Author : Natalie K. Eschenbaum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317149610
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Disgust in Early Modern English Literature written by Natalie K. Eschenbaum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of disgust or revulsion in early modern English literature? How did early modern English subjects experience revulsion and how did writers represent it in poetry, plays, and prose? What does it mean when literature instructs, delights, and disgusts? This collection of essays looks at the treatment of disgust in texts by Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Herrick, and others to demonstrate how disgust, perhaps more than other affects, gives us a more complex understanding of early modern culture. Dealing with descriptions of coagulated eye drainage, stinky leeks, and blood-filled fleas, among other sensational things, the essays focus on three kinds of disgusting encounters: sexual, cultural, and textual. Early modern English writers used disgust to explore sexual mores, describe encounters with foreign cultures, and manipulate their readers' responses. The essays in this collection show how writers deployed disgust to draw, and sometimes to upset, the boundaries that had previously defined acceptable and unacceptable behaviors, people, and literatures. Together they present the compelling argument that a critical understanding of early modern cultural perspectives requires careful attention to disgust.

Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England

Author : Helen Yallop
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317319729
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Age and Identity in Eighteenth-Century England written by Helen Yallop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yallop looks at how people in eighteenth-century England understood and dealt with growing older. Though no word for ‘aging’ existed at this time, a person’s age was a significant aspect of their identity.

Power and Poverty

Author : Susannah R. Ottaway
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power and Poverty written by Susannah R. Ottaway and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-10-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite calls since the 1970s for more research into the history of old age, there is still a relative dearth of historical studies on the elderly, especially in the pre-industrial past. This volume remedies much of that deficiency with essays exploring the lives of old men and old women, and the images of old age and aging, in early modern Europe and America. Collectively, the chapters demonstrate there was a strong association of advanced age with authority in the lived experience of older men and women. This book recognizes poverty and physical limitations were a very real threat, but challenges the tendency of existing literature on historical gerontology to associate old age with dependence and disability. Instead, what emerges from this volume is the success of older people in the past in imbuing their old age with dignity, despite the often vicious nature of old age in both popular and elite literature. Essays are brought together on old age in early modern England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and America, enabling comparisons that cross geographical boundaries. Historians of old age, the family, demography, social history and cultural history will value this volume, as will sociologists and anthropologists interested in gerontology.

Aging in World History

Author : David G. Troyansky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317381416
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Aging in World History written by David G. Troyansky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Aging in World History, David G. Troyansky presents the first global history of aging. At a time when demographic aging has become a source of worldwide concern, and more people are reaching an advanced age than ever before, the history of old age helps us understand how we arrived at the treatment of aging in the modern world. This concise volume expands that history beyond the West to show how attitudes toward aging, the experiences of the aged, and relevant demographic patterns have varied and coalesced over time and across the world. From the ancient world to the present, this book introduces students and general readers to the history of aging on two levels: the experience of individual men and women, and the transformation of populations. With its attention to cultural traditions, medicalization, decades of historical scholarship, and current gerontology, Aging in World History is the perfect starting point for an exploration of this increasingly universal aspect of human experience.

Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe

Author : Andreas Gestrich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441163603
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe written by Andreas Gestrich and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a genuinely pan-European analysis of pauper narratives, focusing on the experiences of the sick poor in England, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Wales. The contributions highlight the value of pauper narratives for exploring the agency, rhetoric and experiences of the poor and sick poor, significantly enhancing our understanding of the ways in which national and regional welfare systems operated. By foregrounding the particular experiences and strategies of the sick poor, this volume helps to establish and understand the central sentiments of the relief system and the core experiences of those under its care. What emerges is a demonstration that how a relief system treated its sick poor and how those sick poor were able to navigate the system tells us more about welfare history than analysis of any other group.

Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance

Author : Cynthia Skenazi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004255729
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance written by Cynthia Skenazi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.