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Growing old in early modern Europe : cultural representations

Title
Growing old in early modern Europe : cultural representations / edited by Erin Campbell.
ISBN
0754650839 (alk. paper)
Published
Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006.
Physical Description
x, 217 p., [28] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 04, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-211) and index.
Contents
Appropriating the ancients and representing the aged
Medical representations of old age in the renaissance : the influence of non-medical texts / Daniel Schäfer
Time's whirligig : images of old age in Coriolanus, Francis Bacon and Thomas Newton / Nina Taunton
Youth, old age, and male self-fashioning : the appropriation of the anacreontic figure of the old man by Jonson and his 'sons' / Stella Achilleos
Aging at court
Old age in Castiglione's The book of the courtier / Maria Teresa Ricci
Aging the lover : the Posies of George Gascoigne / Kevin P. Laam
The aging self
'Should I as yet call you old?' : testing the boundaries of female old age in early modern England / Aki C. L. Beam
Thematic reflections on old age in Titian's late works / Zbynek Smetana
Power, fragility, and anxiety
Visible signs of aging : images of old women in renaissance Venice / Mary E. Frank
'Unenduring' beauty : gender and old age in early modern art and aesthetics / Erin J. Campbell Cosimo's black widow / Allison Levy
Sans wife : sexual anxiety and the old man in Shakespeare / Philip D. Collington.
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