Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 279 pages)
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illustrations
ISBN:
0268075050
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0268029652
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9780268029654
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9780268075057
Series Statement:
The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante studies
Content:
Experiencing the Afterlife provides the first sustained analysis of popular, vernacular depictions of the afterlife written in Italy before the Divine Comedy by authors such as Uguccione da Lodi, Giacomino da Verona, and Bonvesin da la Riva. Manuele Gragnolati uses his readings of these poets to provide a new interpretation of Dante's work. Combining elements from several disciplines, he investigates the richness of high medieval eschatology and the concept of personal identity it expresses. Gragnolati is particularly concerned with how the notions of body and pain characteristic of medieval s
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-269) and index
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Eschatological poems and debates between body and soul in thirteenth-century popular culture -- Embryology and aerial bodies in Dante's Comedy -- Productive pain: the Red scripture, the Purgatorio, and a new hypothesis on the "birth of purgatory" -- Now, then, and beyond: air, flesh, and fullness in the Comedy.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0268029644
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780268029647
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gragnolati, Manuele Experiencing the afterlife Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©2005
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Author information:
Gragnolati, Manuele
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