IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 222: Latin Writers on Youth and Age, I: The Early Middle Ages
Monday 11 July 2005, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Medieval Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison / Interdisciplinary Center for Medieval Studies, Universität Salzburg |
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Organiser: | Maria Elisabeth Dorninger, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Salzburg |
Moderator/Chair: | Maria Elisabeth Dorninger, Institut für Germanistik, Universität Salzburg |
Paper 222-a | 'Aetas crudelis': Eugenius of Toledo's Poetic Complaints on Old Age (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Latin, Religious Life, Rhetoric |
Paper 222-c | Youth and Age in the Letters of Alcuin to Archbishop Arn of Salzburg (Language: English) Index terms: Education, Language and Literature - Latin, Monasticism, Rhetoric |
Abstract | Today the time of life that is accorded preferential treatment in advertising and in work situations is youth. This session explores ethical values and attitudes to youth and also age in early medieval Latin texts of different kinds. Emphasis will be placed chiefly but not exclusively upon concepts of human youth and age and on personal, institutional, and other conflicts and problems arising from the ageing process. |