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In Boccaccio's time, the Italian city-state began to take on a much
more proactive role in prosecuting crime – one which superseded a
largely communitarian, private approach. The emergence of the
state-sponsored inquisitorial trial indeed haunts the legal
proceedings staged in the Decameron. How, Justin Steinberg
asks, does this significant juridical shift alter our perspective
on Boccaccio's much-touted realism and literary self-consciousness?
What can it tell us about how he views his predecessor, Dante:
perhaps the world's most powerful inquisitorial judge? And to what
extent does the Decameron shed light on the enduring role of
verisimilitude and truth-seeming in our current legal system? The
author explores these and other literary, philosophical, and
ethical questions that Boccaccio raises in the Decameron's numerous
trials. The book will appeal to scholars and students of medieval
and early modern studies, literary theory and legal history.
Spinoza's Political Psychology advances a novel, comprehensive
interpretation of Spinoza's political writings, exploring how his
analysis of psychology informs his arguments for democracy and
toleration. Justin Steinberg shows how Spinoza's political method
resembles the Renaissance civic humanism in its view of governance
as an adaptive craft that requires psychological attunement. He
examines the ways that Spinoza deploys this realist method in the
service of empowerment, suggesting that the state can affectively
reorient and thereby liberate its citizens, but only if it attends
to their actual motivational and epistemic capacities. His book
will interest a range of readers in Spinoza studies and the history
of political thought, as well as readers working in contemporary
political theory.
Spinoza's Political Psychology advances a novel, comprehensive
interpretation of Spinoza's political writings, exploring how his
analysis of psychology informs his arguments for democracy and
toleration. Justin Steinberg shows how Spinoza's political method
resembles the Renaissance civic humanism in its view of governance
as an adaptive craft that requires psychological attunement. He
examines the ways that Spinoza deploys this realist method in the
service of empowerment, suggesting that the state can affectively
reorient and thereby liberate its citizens, but only if it attends
to their actual motivational and epistemic capacities. His book
will interest a range of readers in Spinoza studies and the history
of political thought, as well as readers working in contemporary
political theory.
In Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin Steinberg offers the
first comprehensive study of the legal structure essential to
Dante's Divine Comedy. Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an
afterlife dominated by sophisticated laws, hierarchical
jurisdictions, and rationalized punishments and rewards. He makes
the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly
structured legal system to explore the phenomenon of exceptions to
it, crucially introducing Dante to current debates about
literature's relation to law, exceptionality, and sovereignty.
Examining how Dante probes the limits of the law in this juridical
otherworld, Steinberg argues that exceptions were vital to the
medieval legal order and that Dante's otherworld represents an
ideal "system of exception." In the real world, Dante saw this
system as increasingly threatened by the dual crises of church and
empire: the abuses and overreaching of the popes and the absence of
an effective Holy Roman Emperor. Steinberg shows that Dante's
imagination of the afterlife seeks to address this gap between the
universal validity of Roman law and the lack of a sovereign power
to enforce it. Exploring the institutional role of disgrace, the
entwined phenomena of judicial discretion and artistic freedom,
medieval ideas about privilege and immunity, and the place of
judgment in the poem, this cogently argued book brings to life
Dante's sense of justice.
In Accounting for Dante, Justin Steinberg reexamines Dante's
relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included
those poets who responded to Dante's early work as well as the
readers who first copied, preserved, and circulated his poetry.
Based on original research of manuscripts and documents,
Steinberg's study reveals in particular the importance of
professional, urban classes--namely, merchants and notaries--as
cultivators of early Italian poetry. Although not officially
trained as glossators or scribes, these newly educated readers were
full participants in an emergent vernacular literature,
demonstrating at times a marked degree of sophistication in their
choices of which lyric poems to include in their personal
anthologies. Adapting their methods of memorializing contracts and
keeping accounts to the collecting of medieval Italian poetry,
these urban readers and writers made copying Italian poetry a
crucial aspect of how they understood and represented themselves as
individuals and communities. Steinberg describes how notaries and
merchants transcribed Dante's poetry in nontraditional formats,
such as in the archival documents of the Memoriali bolognesi and
the register-book Vaticano Latino 3793. In bringing to light
evidence of the urban reception of the early Italian lyric, Justin
Steinberg restores the political, social, and historical contexts
in which Dante would have understood the poetic debates of his day.
He also examines how Dante continuously responded in his literary
career--from the Vita Nova, to the De Vulgari eloquenta, to the
Commedia--to the interpretations and misinterpretations of his
early lyrics by this bourgeois audience.
In "Dante and the Limits of the Law," Justin Steinberg offers the
first comprehensive study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's
"Divine Comedy." Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife
dominated by elaborate laws, hierarchical jurisdictions, and
rationalized punishments and rewards. Steinberg makes the
compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this
highly-structured legal system to explore the phenomenon of
exceptions "to" it, introducing Dante to crucial current debates
about literature's relation to law, exceptionality, and
sovereignty. Examining how Dante probes the limits of the law in
this juridical otherworld, Steinberg argues that exceptions were
vital to the medieval legal order and that Dante's otherworld
represents an ideal "system of exception." Yet Dante saw this
system as threatened on earth by the dual crises of church and
Empire--the abuses and overreaching of the popes and the absence of
an effective Holy Roman Emperor. In his imagination of the
afterlife, Steinberg shows, Dante seeks to address this gap between
the universal validity of Roman law and the lack of a sovereign
power to enforce it. Exploring the institutional role of disgrace,
the entwined phenomena of judicial discretion and artistic freedom,
medieval ideas about privilege and immunity, and the place of
judgment in the poem, this is an elegantly argued book that
persuasively brings to life Dante's sense of justice.
In Accounting for Dante, Justin Steinberg reexamines Dante's
relation to his contemporary public, an audience that included
those poets who responded to Dante's early work as well as the
readers who first copied, preserved, and circulated his poetry.
Based on original research of manuscripts and documents,
Steinberg's study reveals in particular the importance of
professional, urban classes—namely, merchants and notaries—as
cultivators of early Italian poetry. Although not officially
trained as glossators or scribes, these newly educated readers were
full participants in an emergent vernacular literature,
demonstrating at times a marked degree of sophistication in their
choices of which lyric poems to include in their personal
anthologies. Adapting their methods of memorializing contracts and
keeping accounts to the collecting of medieval Italian poetry,
these urban readers and writers made copying Italian poetry a
crucial aspect of how they understood and represented themselves as
individuals and communities. Steinberg describes how notaries and
merchants transcribed Dante's poetry in nontraditional formats,
such as in the archival documents of the Memoriali bolognesi and
the register-book Vaticano Latino 3793. In bringing to light
evidence of the urban reception of the early Italian lyric, Justin
Steinberg restores the political, social, and historical contexts
in which Dante would have understood the poetic debates of his day.
He also examines how Dante continuously responded in his literary
career—from the Vita Nuova, to the De Vulgari eloquentia, to the
Commedia—to the interpretations and misinterpretations of his
early lyrics by this municipal audience.
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