Jupiter and Saturn: Medieval Ideals of “Elde”

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Old Age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Also an Introduction 1
4. Age and Style in Late Antique Epistolography: Symmachus’ Polemics against the Rhetoric of the Old 85
5. Winter in Heorot: Looking at Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of Age and Kingship through the Character of Hrothgar 103
6. Old Age and Women in the Carolingian World 121
7. The Withdrawal of Aged Noblemen into Monastic Communities: Interpreting the Sources from Twelfth-Century Germany 143
8. Medieval Latin Meditations on Old Age: Rhetoric, Autobiography, and Experience 171
9. Old Age in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival and Titurel 201
10. Old Age in the World of The Stricker and Other Middle High German Poets: A Neglected Topic 219
11. Merlin, puer senex par excellence 251
12. Age-Old Words of Wisdom: The Power of the Aged in Grail Literature 263
13. Old Age and Medieval Misogyny: The Old Woman 299
14. De vetula: the Figure of the Old Woman in Medieval French Literature 321
15. Celestina: The Power of Old Age 343
16. Forty Years of Plague: Attitudes toward Old Age in the Tales of Boccaccio and Chaucer 357
17. Jupiter and Saturn: Medieval Ideals of “Elde” 375
18. Old Age, Narrative Form, and Epistemology in Langland’s Piers Plowman: The Possibility of Learning 393
19. “L’aage plus fort ennaye”: Scienta mortis, Ars moriendi and Jean Gerson’s Advice to an Old Man 407
20. Representations of Aging and Disability in Early Sixteenth-Century French Farce 421
21. The Good, the Bad, and the Elderly: The Representation of Old Age in Netherlandish Prints (ca. 1550-1650) 437
22. Hoorndragers and Hennetasters: The Old Impotent Cuckold as “Other” in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Art 485
23. A Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man – with Emphasis on Titian 517
24. The Sulzbach Jubilee: Old Age in Early Modern Europe and America 533
25. Contributors 557
26. Index 563
27. List of Illustrations 573