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The Perfect Age of Man's Life
by Dove, Mary
by Dove, Mary
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- ISBN-13: 9780521325714
- ISBN: 0521325714
- Publication Date: 1987
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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SUMMARY
This is an investigation of one particular aspect of what is usually called the Ages of Man. Human beings seem always to have divided up their lives into separate stages: this book argues that the medieval understanding of the age in the middle of man's life was very different from our own. Middle age in the Middle Ages did not have dim and negative associations. Instead, it was typically perceived as a 'perfect' age, an age of fulfilment which reached its consummation in the redemption brought about by Christ in his perfect age. The implications of this for medieval understanding of the series of the ages are discussed here for the first time.Dove, Mary is the author of 'The Perfect Age of Man's Life', published 1987 under ISBN 9780521325714 and ISBN 0521325714.
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