Experiencing the Afterlife Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture |
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Author:
| Gragnolati, Manuele |
Series title: | William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-268-02964-7 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2005 |
Publisher: | University of Notre Dame Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $100.00USD $100.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More Description 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 spirituality and devotion inform the eschatological representations of the time, especially in their paradoxical urge to stress at once the physical experience of the separated soul and the final necessity of bodily resurrection.