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Author:

Gragnolati, Manuele.

Title:

Experiencing the afterlife : soul and body in Dante and medieval culture / Manuele Gragnolati.

Publisher:

University of Notre Dame Press,

Copyright Date:

c2005

Description:

xvii, 279 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Dante Alighieri,--1265-1321--Criticism and interpretation.
Italian literature--To 1400--History and criticism.
Future life in literature.
Future life--History of doctrines--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
Hiernamaals.
Letterkunde.
Italiaans.
Cultuur.
Dante Alighieri,--1265-1321--Critique et interprétation.
Littérature italienne--Avant 1400--Histoire et critique.
Vie future dans la littérature.
Vie future--Histoire des doctrines--600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Civilisation médiévale dans la littérature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-269) and index.

Contents:

Eschatological poems and debates between body and soul in thirteenth-century popular culture -- Embryology and aerial bodies in Dante's Comedy -- Productive pain: the Red scripture, the Purgatorio, and a new hypothesis on the "birth of purgatory" -- Now, then, and beyond: air, flesh, and fullness in the Comedy.

Series:

The William and Katherine Devers series in Dante studies

ISBN:

9780268029654 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0268029652 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780268029647 (cloth : alk. paper)
0268029644 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2005016275

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)