Dignified, Powerful, and Respected Old People in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: The Worthy Hero and the Wise Old Person Versus the Old Fool

To understand the topic of old age in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, we can draw much information from relevant literary texts among other sources because the poets operated with general notions commonly subscribed to by their audiences. Old people appear in many different roles already in the...

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Published in:	Encyclopedia
Main Author:	Albrecht Classen
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI AG 2025-02-01
Subjects:	old age in medieval heroic literature <i>Beowulf</i> “Hildebrandslied” <i>Kudrun</i> Heinrich Kaufringer Boccaccio
Online Access:	https://www.mdpi.com/2673-8392/5/1/27