Dante's Christian ethics : Purgatory and its moral contexts / George Corbett.
Dante's Christian ethics : Purgatory and its moral contexts / George Corbett.
Dante's Christian ethics : Purgatory and its moral contexts / George Corbett.
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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G 2021/1461
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English
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x, 233 pages ; 24 cm.
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text
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unmediated
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volume
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Dante's ethical agenda : vital nourishment -- Dante's political polemic : church and empire -- Dante's theological Purgatory : earthly happiness and eternal beatitude -- Two traditions of Christian ethics : Aquinas and Peraldus -- The terrace of pride, and the poet as preacher -- The terrace of slot...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
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England
Date Published
2020.
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This book is a major re-appraisal of the Commedia as originally envisaged by Dante: as a work of ethics. Privileging the ethical, Corbett increases our appreciation of Dante's eschatological innovations and literary genius. Drawing upon a wider range of moral contexts than in previous studies, this book presents an overarching account of the comple...
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Dante's Christian ethics : Purgatory and its moral contexts / George Corbett.
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Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature ; 110
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-228) and index.
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G 2021/1461
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9781108489416
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851.1
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991024410820202626
