Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England

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1. Table of contents No access
2. Acknowledgements No access
1. Old Man Yells at Cloud: Old Bodies and Common Complaints No access
2. Four Aging Authorities: Aristotle, Cicero, Juvenal, Maximianus No access
1. The Timeliness of Age: Narrative Economies and Young Minstrels in Wynnere No access
2. Narrating Age: The Old Stories of Elde No access
3. Worthy Narrations No access
1. General Portraits of Age and Ability No access
2. Dirty Tricks and Textual Transgressions No access
1. Politics is Prologue No access
2. Hoccleve’s Trace and Empty Inheritances No access
3. Erasing Prosthesis: Printing Paratexts No access
4. Broken Bodies and Narrating Destruction: Troy and Caxton No access
5. Imprinting Age: Caxton’s Cicero No access
6. Papa Don’t Preach: Correct Texts and a Genealogical Tradition No access
7. The Old Terms of Prosthesis No access
8. Polychronicon and Old Histories No access
1. Restoring Prostheses: Gower’s Old Speech Fills the Gaps No access
2. Remember Gower’s Old Body No access
3. “This ’longs the Text”: Gower as Medieval Prosthesis No access
1. Words, words, words No access
1. Primary Sources No access
2. Secondary Sources No access
Index No access Pages 147 - 150