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This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before the nineteenth century. This book provides the first in-depth examination of perceptions of cancerous disease in early modern England. Looking to drama, poetry and polemic as well as medical texts and personal accounts, it contends that early modern people possessed an understanding of cancer which remains recognizable to us today. Many of the ways in which medical practitioners and lay people imagined cancer - as a 'woman's disease' or a 'beast' inside the body - remain strikingly familiar, and they helped to make this disease a byword for treachery and cruelty in discussions of religion, culture and politics. Equally, cancer treatments were among the era's most radical medical and surgical procedures. From buttered frog ointments to agonizing and dangerous surgeries, they raised abiding questions about the nature of disease and the proper role of the medical practitioner.

Literature, Modern. --- British literature. --- History. --- History, Modern. --- European literature. --- Europe—History. --- Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- History of Science. --- Modern History. --- European Literature. --- European History. --- European literature --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- World history --- Science --- Europe --- Early Modern and Renaissance Literature. --- Renaissance, 1450-1600. --- Gay culture Europe --- Literature, Renaissance --- Renaissance literature --- Literature, Modern

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Desde la Antigüedad clásica, la literatura ha ido configurando una serie de personajes femeninos para ser inculcados como modelos de conducta a las mujeres. Muchos de ellos se han convertido en estereotipos representativos de virtudes inherentes y deseables en el sexo femenino o, por el contrario, encarnan comportamientos reprobatorios. Se pretende con ello establecer códigos de conducta que redefinan su papel como hijas, esposas y madres, pero también como protagonistas de la vida cultural y, en algunos casos, política. Estos once estudios de acreditados especialistas, ordenados con un criterio temático-temporal, ofrecen una extensa y profunda panorámica sobre los arquetipos femeninos desde la Antigüedad hasta el siglo XVI, con un análisis de sus orígenes, evolución y función desde un enfoque histórico y literario. Se abordan en ellos los discursos teóricos y el estudio de figuras femeninas tradicionales, haciendo una relectura reivindicativa de las mismas, o analizando el proceso de reformulación y de semantización que han sufrido. En definitiva, este volumen constituye una importante aportación a la historia de las mentalidades y, más en concreto, a la historia de las mujeres como pieza clave de la cultura intelectual de Occidente. The volume gathers eleven contributions on the origins, evolution and function of female models in Western culture, from Greco-Roman texts to medieval and Renaissance literature. Organized in four thematic blocks, the book intends to elucidate how misogynistic discourse and its opposite are constructed in literary and didactical works dealing with feminine archetypes.

Stereotypes (Social psychology). --- Women in literature --- Women --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese. --- History. --- Champier, Symphorien. --- Feminine archetypes. --- Misogynistic discourse. --- Renaissance literature. --- Mental stereotypes --- Stereotype (Psychology) --- Stereotyping (Social psychology) --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Rigidity (Psychology) --- Feminism --- Manners and customs --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry

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In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne Cynthia Skenazi explores a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. From the late fourteenth to the end of the sixteenth centuries, the elderly subject became a point of new social, medical, political, and literary attention on both sides of the Alps. A movement of secularization tended to dissociate old age from the Christian preparation for death, re-orienting the concept of aging around pragmatic matters such as health care, intergenerational relationships, and accrued insights one might wish to pass along. Such changes were accompanied by an increasing number of personal accounts of later life. Listed by Choice magazine as one of the Outstanding Academic Titles of 2014 This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access

European literature --- Aging in literature. --- Aging --- Older people --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Aged --- Aging people --- Elderly people --- Old people --- Older adults --- Older persons --- Senior citizens --- Seniors (Older people) --- Age groups --- Persons --- Gerontocracy --- Gerontology --- Old age --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Physiological effect --- Aging. --- Older people. --- Renaissance. --- 1450 - 1600 --- Europe. --- Literature, Renaissance --- Renaissance literature --- Literature, Modern --- Renaissance Period --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Literature --- History --- Erasmus --- Galen --- Michel de Montaigne --- Michel Foucault --- Petrarch --- Pierre de Ronsard