Writing Old Age and Impairments in Late Medieval England

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Staves and Stanzas
	Old Man Yells at Cloud: Old Bodies and Common Complaints
	Four Aging Authorities: Aristotle, Cicero, Juvenal, Maximianus
Chapter 1. Crooked as a Staff: Narrative, History, and the Disabled Body in Parlement of Thre Ages
	The Timeliness of Age: Narrative Economies and Young Minstrels in Wynnere
	Narrating Age: The Old Stories of Elde
	Worthy Narrations
Chapter 2. A Reckoning with Age: Prosthetic Violence and the Reeve
	General Portraits of Age and Ability
	Dirty Tricks and Textual Transgressions
Chapter 3. The Past is Prologue: Following the Trace of Master Hoccleve
	Politics is Prologue
	Hoccleve’s Trace and Empty Inheritances
	Erasing Prosthesis: Printing Paratexts
	Broken Bodies and Narrating Destruction: Troy and Caxton
	Imprinting Age: Caxton’s Cicero
	Papa Don’t Preach: Correct Texts and a Genealogical Tradition
	The Old Terms of Prosthesis
	Polychronicon and Old Histories
Chapter 4. Playing Prosthesis and Revising the Past: Gower’s Supplemental Role
	Restoring Prostheses: Gower’s Old Speech Fills the Gaps
	Remember Gower’s Old Body
	“This ’longs the Text”: Gower as Medieval Prosthesis
Epilogue: Impotence and Textual Healing
	Words, words, words
Works Cited
	Primary Sources
	Secondary Sources
Index