Alison Morgan

Dante and the Medieval Other World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780521039277
• ISBN-10: 0521039274
• Artikelnr.: 22955541

Autorenporträt

Alison Morgan holds a degree in agriculture from the University of Reading and a postgraduate degree in global development. She has worked with arable and livestock farmers, in agricultural research, farm advisory work, and farming, food and environment policy roles. She has also worked overseas with farmers and pastoral herders in Central Asia and the Middle East.

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
Preface
Introduction
1. Topographical motifs of the other world
2. The inhabitants of the other world
3. The guide
4. The classification of sin
5. The mountain of Purgatory
6. The representation of Paradise
Appendixes
Bibliography
Indices.