TY - BOOK AU - Skenazi, Cynthia AB - Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. 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. From the late fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth centuries, the elderly subject became a point of new social, medical, political, and literary attention on both sides of the Alps. A movement of secularization tended to dissociate old age from the Christian preparation for death, re-orienting the concept of aging around pragmatic matters such as health care, intergenerational relationships, and accrued insights one might wish to pass along. Such changes were accompanied by an increasing number of personal accounts of later life. ID - OAPEN ID: 649950 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 858861444 ID - OAPEN ID: 0925-7683 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30150 KW - Literature KW - Literature KW - History KW - Aging KW - Erasmus KW - Galen KW - Michel de Montaigne KW - Michel Foucault KW - Petrarch KW - Pierre de Ronsard L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30150/1/649950.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30150/1/649950.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38164 PB - Brill PP - Leiden - Boston PY - 2013-11-01 SN - 9789004255722 TI - Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance : Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne ER -