Reviewing Dante's Theology
Reviewing Dante's Theology

Author: Claire E. Honess

Publisher: Leeds Studies on Dante

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783034309240

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The two volumes of Reviewing Dante's Theology bring together work by a range of internationally prominent Dante scholars to assess current research on Dante's theology and to suggest future directions for research. Volume 1 considers some of the key theological influences on Dante. The contributors discuss what 'doctrine' might have meant for Dante and consider the poet's engagement with key theological figures and currents in his time including: Christian Aristotelian and scholastic thought, including that of Thomas Aquinas; Augustine; Plato and Platonic thought; Gregory the Great; and notions of beatific vision. Each essay offers an overview of its topic and opens up new avenues for future study. Together they capture the energy of current research in the field, test the limits of our current knowledge and set the future study of Dante's theology on firm ground.

The Cambridge Companion to Dante
The Cambridge Companion to Dante

Author: Rachel Jacoff

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-02-15

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0521844304

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A fully updated 2007 edition of this useful and accessible coursebook on Dante's works, context and reception history.

The Poetry of Dante's Paradiso
The Poetry of Dante's Paradiso

Author: Jeremy Tambling

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-03-08

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 3030656284

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This book argues that Paradiso – Dante’s vision of Heaven – is not simply affirmative. It posits that Paradiso compensates for disappointment rather than fulfils hopes, and where it moves into joy and vision, this also rationalises the experience of exile and the failure of all Dante’s political hopes. The book highlights and addresses a fundamental problem in reading Dante: the assumption that he writes as a Catholic Christian, which can be off-putting and induces an overly theological and partisan reading in some commentary. Accordingly, the study argues that Dante must be read now in a post-Christian modernity. It discusses Dante's Christianity fully, and takes its details as a source of wonder and beauty which need communicating to a modern reader. Yet, the study also argues that we must read for the alterity of Dante’s world from ours.

Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition
Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition

Author: Lydia Yaitsky Kertz

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2024-01-29

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 1501516876

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Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition honors Ronald B. Herzman, SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English. Over more than fifty years Professor Herzman has been a major force in the promotion of medieval studies within academe and public humanities. This volume of essays by his colleagues, students, and friends celebrates Professor Herzman’s outstanding career and reflects the wide range of his scholarly and pedagogical influence, from biblical and early Christian topics to Dante, Langland, and Shakespeare.