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The Ages of ManMedieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle
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Elizabeth Sears, Elizabeth L. Sears

Elizabeth Sears here combines rich visual material and textual evidence to reveal the sophistication, warmth, and humor of medieval speculations about the ages of man. Medieval artists illustrated this theme, establishing the convention that each of life's phases in turn was to be represented by the figure of a man (or, rarely, a woman) who revealed his age through size, posture, gesture, and a…

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9780691198101
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1 online resource (320 pages)
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