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The world grown old in later medieval literature

James M. Dean
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  • Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Abbreviations and Editions (page ix)
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Introduction: The World Grown Old and the History of Ideas (page 1)
  • 1 A Morphology of Subtopics De Senectute Mundi (page 37)
  • 2 Genesis and the World Grown Old in Middle English Historical Writings (page 113)
  • 3 Jean de Meun and the Critique of Erotic Idealism (page 143)
  • 4 Dante and the Uses of Nostalgia: Inferno 14.94-120 (page 173)
  • 5 Innocence, Untime, and the Agrarian Metaphor in Piers Plowman (page 197)
  • 6 Social Deterioration and the Decline of Love in John Gower's Narratives (page 233)
  • 7 Chaucer and the Decay of Virtue (page 271)
  • Conclusion: The Idea of the World Grown Old in the Later Middle Ages (page 315)
  • Bibliography of Works Cited (page 325)
  • Index (page 357)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
RES 50. 199 (Aug. 1999): 372-373 http://www.jstor.org/stable/517892
SP 73.3 (Jul. 1998): 830-832 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2887519
MLR 96.3 (Jul. 2001): 782-783 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3736749
JEGP 98.4 (Oct. 1999): 553-555 http://www.jstor.org/stable/27711874
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Published: 1997
Publisher: Medieval Academy of America
ISBN(s)
  • 9780915651047 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European: 400-1400
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