Growing old in early modern Europe : cultural representations

General notes

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