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Reihe: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture
E-Book, Englisch, Web PDF
Reihe: William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature
ISBN: 978-0-268-07505-7
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
Format: PDF
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By integrating lesser-known texts and scholarship from other disciplines into the specialized field of Dante studies, Gragnolati sheds new light on some of the most vigorously debated and crucial questions raised by the Divine Comedy, including the embryological discourse of Purgatorio 25, the relation between the soul’s experience of pain in Purgatory and the devotion that late medieval culture expressed toward Christ’s suffering, and the significance of the audacious vision of resurrected bodies that Dante the pilgrim enjoys at the end of his journey. At the same time, Gragnolati brings these questions back into contemporary discussions of medieval eschatology and opens new perspectives for current and future work on embodiment and identity. Scholars and students of Dante and Italian studies, as well as those in medieval history, religion, culture, and art history, will be rewarded by the fresh insights contained in Experiencing the Afterlife.