OLD AGE IN POLISH RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE LITERATURE (Starosc w twórczosci pisarzy polskiego renesansu i baroku)

• Authors: Bogucka Maria
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Research on old age developed rapidly in the second half of the 20th century after historians began to pay attention to the issues of everyday life. Interest in the different forms of human existence, especially in the turning points of this existence (the so-called rites of passage), has produced vast literature devoted to death and to human attitudes to death, and consequently also to old age viewed as the threshold of death. Opportunities in that respect have been greatly extended due to including in the scope of research such mass-scale sources as probate inventories and funeral sermons. New inspirations have also been brought by the exploration of illnesses, medicine and hospitals in the past centuries. An important role in this trend can also be assigned to research on issues connected with time - from the techniques of measuring time to the perception of the passage of time in various social groups in various epochs. All those tendencies have led to numerous analyses of the attitude to old people in various social groups and various epochs. The basic study concerning the epoch investigated in this article is still Geschichte des Alters, 16.-18. Jahrhundert by the German historian Peter Borscheid. As regards Polish works, we should mention the recent article by Grzegorz Mysliwski and the studies by Maria Bogucka and Michal Kopczynski.

Keywords

EN

AGING; OLD AGE; RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE LITERATURE

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 58
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 61-70
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Bogucka Maria

• Prof. dr hab. Maria Bogucka, ul. Kopernika 6 m. 19, 00-367 Warszawa, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA09807