Dante and the Church : literary and historical essays

Publication Data

• Title Dante and the Church : literary and historical essays
• Contributors Paolo Acquaviva, Jennifer Petrie, Jennifer Petrie
• Publisher Four Courts Press for the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Dublin
• Language English

Contents

Dante, Boniface VIII and the Jubilee / Gary Dickson
Dante and the Franciscans / George Holmes
"O papa Bonifazio" : Dante, Boniface VIII and Jacopone da Todi / Jennifer Petrie
Purgatory and the spatial imagination / Alexander Murray
Amorous bride and her lovers : Images of the Church in Dante's Heaven of the Sun / Paola Nasti
Accidental perfection : ecclesiology and political thought in Monarchia / Matthew Kempshall
Father of lies : (mis)readings of clerical and civic duty in Inferno XXIII / Catherine Keen.

Topics

• Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 :: Criticism and interpretation
• Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 :: Religion
• Boniface VIII, Pope, -1303

Dante and the Church : literary and historical essays. ISBN 9781846820267. Published by Four Courts Press for the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.