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Dante and the Medieval Other World (Paperback)
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Dante and the Medieval Other World (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
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A major study of the Divine Comedy, this book offers an interesting
perspective on Dante's representation of the afterlife. Alison
Morgan departs from the conventional critical emphasis on Dante's
place in relation to learned traditions by undertaking a thorough
examination of the poem in the context of popular beliefs. Her
principal sources are thus not the highly literary texts (such as
Virgil's Aeneid or Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae) which have
become a familiar context for the poem, but rather visions of the
Other World found in popular writings, painting and sculpture from
the centuries leading up to its composition. The book will be of
interest to non-specialists in addition to scholars of Dante, since
it offers a clear preliminary account of the Other World tradition,
a chronology of its principal representations and summaries of the
major texts. Fully illustrated throughout, it integrates with the
literary and theological aspects of Dante's heritage the important
but often neglected dimension of art history.
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