TY - BOOK AU - Callegari,Danielle TI - Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy T2 - Food Culture, Food History before 1900 SN - 9789048550036 PY - 2022///] CY - Amsterdam : PB - Amsterdam University Press, KW - Food habits in literature KW - Food in literature KW - Italian poetry KW - History and criticism KW - To 1400 KW - Cultural Studies KW - Early Modern Studies KW - Food Studies KW - History, Art History, and Archaeology KW - Literary Theory, Criticism, and History KW - Medieval Studies KW - HISTORY / Europe / Italy KW - bisacsh KW - Dante, food, medieval, literature N1 - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1. Dante’s Gluttony --; 2. Convivial Gluttony --; 3. Infernal Gluttony --; 4. Purgatorial Gluttony --; 5. Heavenly Gluttony --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Dante’s Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy explores how in his work medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to articulate, reinforce, criticize, and correct the social, political, and cultural values of his time. Combining medieval history, food studies, and literary criticism, Dante’s Gluttons historicizes food and eating in Dante, beginning in his earliest collected poetry and arriving at the end of his major work. For Dante, the consumption of food is not a frivolity, but a crux of life in the most profound sense of the term, and gluttony is the abdication of civic and spiritual responsibility and a danger to the individual body and soul as well as to the collective. This book establishes how one of the world’s preeminent authors uses the intimacy and universality of food as a touchstone, communicating through a gastronomic language rooted in the deeply human relationship with material sustenance UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550036?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048550036 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048550036/original ER -