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Dante's Commedia and the Liturgical Imagination Matthew Treherne

Dante's Commedia and the Liturgical Imagination By Matthew Treherne

Dante's Commedia and the Liturgical Imagination by Matthew Treherne


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Summary

Medieval liturgical practice had a deep and far-reaching influence on thought and experience of the time. This book argues that Dante's engagement with liturgy is central to the daring and highly original poetic project of the Commedia, shaping its treatment of time, its engagement with theology, and its portrayal of the soul's awakening.

Dante's Commedia and the Liturgical Imagination Summary

Dante's Commedia and the Liturgical Imagination by Matthew Treherne

Medieval liturgical practice both expressed and helped shape habits of thought and imagination in ways which were deep and far-reaching, encompassing embodied, lived experience and the most sophisticated theological thought. This book argues that Dante, in common with his contemporaries, saw the liturgical rituals of the Church as a mode of religious practice which manifested what he considered to be the central truths regarding the relationship between God, human beings, and the world. It also shows how Dante's Commedia engages with medieval understandings of the sacraments, an idea which has been largely neglected in studies of Dante. Seen in this way, the poet's engagement with liturgy is central to the daring and highly original poetic project of the Commedia, shaping its treatment of time, its engagement with theology, and its portrayal of the soul's awakening to the condition of creation itself.

About Matthew Treherne

Matthew Treherne is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Leeds, where he co-founded the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies with Claire Honess. He is co-editor, with Vittorio Montemaggi, of Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry (2010), and, with Claire Honess, of Reviewing Dante's Theology (2 vols, 2013), and Se mai continga...: Exile, Politics and Theology in Dante (2013). He was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society and runs the Leeds Dante Podcast. At Leeds, he has been Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies and Director of the Leeds Humanities Research Institute.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS: Dante, Liturgy, Theology - Liturgy, Time, and the Music of Incarnation in the Commedia - Ekphrasis and Eucharist: The Poetics of Seeing God's Art in Purgatorio X - Contingency, Creation, and the Eucharist in the Commedia - Liturgical Personhood in the Commedia: Creation, Penitence, and Praise - Liturgy, Sacraments, and the Theology of the Commedia - Dante's Liturgical Imagination, Then and Now.

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NLS9781789979619
9781789979619
1789979617
Dante's Commedia and the Liturgical Imagination by Matthew Treherne
New
Paperback
Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
2020-12-11
298
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