This collection of essays details the image of age in Western medieval and Renaissance society, and every essay has something new to say about the old. Topics include Symmachus's understanding
of the rhetoric of age, Hrothgar or Merlin as exemplars, Carolingian women of age, the retreat to monasteries by aged German noblemen, medieval autobiographical meditations, the Middle High
German poets, grail literature and the wisdom of age, medieval misogyny, Roman gods as symbols, learning in old age in Langland, Gerson's advice to an old man, French farce, representations of
age in Netherlandish prints, the aged as "other," works on age by Boccaccio, Chaucer and Titian, and the translation of early modern European ideas on age into America. Annotation 穢2007 Book
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