The essays in this collection present new research into a variety of questions on birth, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, and old age, ordered in
"Peter of Limoges's Moral Treatise on the Eye is arguably the single most important medieval text situated at the junction of two dynamic areas of intellectual
Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- THE EGYPTIAN BENU AND THE CLASSICAL PHOENIX -- A COPTIC TEXT ON THE PHOENIX -- THE NAME PHOENIX -- LIFESPAN AND APPEARAN