Introduction: The world grown old and the history of ideas -- A morphology of subtopics De Senectute Mundi -- Genesis and the world grown old in Middle English historical writings -- Jean de Meun and the critique of erotic idealism -- Dante and the uses of nostalgia: Inferno 14.94-120 -- Innocence, untime, and the agrarian metaphor in Piers Plowman -- Social deterioration and the decline of love in John Gower's narratives --Chaucer and the decay of virtue -- Conclusion: The idea of the world grown old in the later Middle Ages
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-356) and index
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