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Experiencing the afterlife : soul and body in Dante and medieval culture /
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 pro...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | William and Katherine Devers series in Dante studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 279 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-269) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0268075050 0268029652 9780268029654 9780268075057 |