Five Ages
Five Ages

Author: Cassandra Atherton

Publisher:

Published: 2021-11

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780645180831

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Hesiod's Five Ages famously proides a vision of the decline of human society that has resonated for many centuries. In this anthology, five poets take Hesiod's versions of the golden, silver, bronze, heroic and iron ages as their starting points to craft five individual 'chapbooks' of prose poetry - not only exploring notions from Hesiodbut also venturing into many new concepts that reconceptualise these ages.These twenty-first century poems challenge many of the archaic Greek poet's assumptions and ideas, writing back to the ancient world with bravura while employing quintessentially contemporary inflections and preoccupations.

The Ages of Man
The Ages of Man

Author: Elizabeth Sears

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0691198101

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Elizabeth Sears here combines rich visual material and textual evidence to reveal the sophistication, warmth, and humor of medieval speculations about the ages of man. Medieval artists illustrated this theme, establishing the convention that each of life's phases in turn was to be represented by the figure of a man (or, rarely, a woman) who revealed his age through size, posture, gesture, and attribute. But in selectiing the number of ages to be depicted--three, four, five, six, seven, ten, or twelve--and in determining the contexts in which the cycles should appear, painters and sculptors were heirs to longstanding intellectual tradtions. Ideas promulgated by ancient and medieval natural historians, physicians, and astrologers, and by biblical exegetes and popular moralists, receive detailed treatment in this wide-ranging study. Professor Sears traces the diffusion of well-established schemes of age division from the seclusion of the early medieval schools into wider circles in the later Middle Ages and examines the increasing use of the theme as a structure of edifying discourse, both in art and literature. Elizabeth Sears is Assistant Professor of Art History at Princeton University. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Perfect Age of Man's Life
The Perfect Age of Man's Life

Author: Mary Dove

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0521325714

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Originally published in 1986, this is an investigation of one particular aspect of what is usually called the Ages of Man. Human beings seem always to have divided up their lives into separate stages: this book argues that the medieval understanding of the age in the middle of man's life was very different from contemporary ideas. Middle age in the Middle Ages did not have dim and negative associations. Instead, it was typically perceived as a 'perfect' age, an age of fulfilment which reached its consummation in the redemption brought about by Christ in his perfect age. The implications of this for medieval understanding of the series of the ages are discussed here for the first time.

A Rational Approach To The Bible
A Rational Approach To The Bible

Author: Aemilius

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-11-10

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1794723242

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Between mankind and God, there is a secret missing link that humanity has forgotten. This book is the first in a series of books that seeks to explain in great detail the meaning behind the world's most renowned religions as well as the true nature of reality. As children, religion is not provided to us as a system of choice but rather enforced upon us by our parents and peers. It gives us a certain identity and ties us to a certain group of people who hold the same ""sacred cause"" while dooming everyone else as ""profane"". We then spend our entire lives defending this religion as it literally dictates our identity, as false as it may be. The child rarely understands his religion as he lacks the proper tools to dissect and analyze it verse by verse. This is the book you wish you had in your childhood as your personal unbiased mentor who sheds light on millennia's endarkened scriptures. The purpose of this book is to help the child as well as the adult to navigate his way through the bible.

The Late Medieval Interlude
The Late Medieval Interlude

Author: Fiona S. Dunlop

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 1903153212

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Sensitive study of the 15/16 century interlude, focussing on one of its major concerns, the depiction of male aristocracy and the development to maturity. The commercial theatre of the late sixteenth century is often credited with introducing its audiences to new modes of thought about the self, society and the nation, making them conscious that the self is performed, as an actor performs a role. Yet the earlier interlude drama, originally performed in households and other institutions of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, indicates that the late medieval period was fully aware of the theatricalityof identity. This book argues that ideas of performance inform the concepts of aristocratic masculinity developed in the plays Nature, Fulgens and Lucres, The Worlde and the Chylde, The Interlude of Youth and Calisto and Melebea. It examines how the depiction of young male aristocrats in these texts is shaped by ideas of male youth constituted in the middle ages, and shows them as failing or succeeding to perform anadult noble masculinity in the aristocratic body and in aristocratic household. The book also suggests ways in which the plays offer discreet praise and censure of the manner in which their noble patrons performed as aristocrats.Throughout, it brings out the subtle qualities of the interludes, which, the author shows, have been unjustly neglected. Dr FIONA S. DUNLOP is Research Associate of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York