Growing Old in Early Modern Europe
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Aged Female Body
ageing studies
Aki C. L. Beam
Allison Levy
Anacreontic Poet
Black Leg
body politics
Cameraphoto Arte
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Cato Maior De Senectute
Cicero's De Senectute
Cicero’s De Senectute
Col
Daniel SchR
De Senectute
Doge Zen
Early Modern
Early Modern Body
early modern history
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Erin Campbell
Erin J. Campbell
gender and old age
Geriatric Disorders
Giorgione's Painting
Giorgione’s Painting
Giovanni Delle Bande Nere
Hundreth Sundrie Flowres
Kevin P. Laam
La Nutrice
Maria Teresa Ricci
Mary E. Frank
Nestor's Breast
Nestor’s Breast
Nina Taunton
Palma Il Giovane
Pasquale Cicogna
Perfect Courtier
Philip D. Collington
Renaissance medicine
representations of ageing in Europe
Stella Achilleos
Sts Cosmas
visual culture analysis
Wet Nurse
Widow Portraiture
Widowed Body
Young Man
Zbynek Smetana
Product details
- ISBN 9780754650836
- Weight: 640g
- Dimensions: 219 x 153mm
- Publication Date: 19 May 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Erin Campbell is Assistant Professor at the Department of History in Art, University of Victoria, Canada.
