دانلود کتاب Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England

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Front Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Staves and Stanzas
Old Man Yells at Cloud: Old Bodies and Common Complaints
Four Aging Authorities: Aristotle, Cicero, Juvenal, Maximianus
Chapter 1. Crooked as a Staff: Narrative, History, and the Disabled Body in Parlement of Thre Ages
The Timeliness of Age: Narrative Economies and Young Minstrels in Wynnere
Narrating Age: The Old Stories of Elde
Worthy Narrations
Chapter 2. A Reckoning with Age: Prosthetic Violence and the Reeve
General Portraits of Age and Ability
Dirty Tricks and Textual Transgressions
Chapter 3. The Past is Prologue: Following the Trace of Master Hoccleve
Politics is Prologue
Hoccleve’s Trace and Empty Inheritances
Erasing Prosthesis: Printing Paratexts
Broken Bodies and Narrating Destruction: Troy and Caxton
Imprinting Age: Caxton’s Cicero
Papa Don’t Preach: Correct Texts and a Genealogical Tradition
The Old Terms of Prosthesis
Polychronicon and Old Histories
Chapter 4. Playing Prosthesis and Revising the Past: Gower’s Supplemental Role
Restoring Prostheses: Gower’s Old Speech Fills the Gaps
Remember Gower’s Old Body
“This ’longs the Text”: Gower as Medieval Prosthesis
Epilogue: Impotence and Textual Healing
Words, words, words
Works Cited
Primary Sources
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Index