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Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition : Essays in Honor of Ronald B. Herzman / ed. by Lydia Yaitsky Kertz, Richard K. Emmerson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and LecturesPublisher: Kalamazoo, MI : Medieval Institute Publications, [2024]Copyright date: 2024Description: 1 online resource (XII, 335 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781501527142
  • 9781501516900
  • 9781501516870
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  • 850
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Part 1: Dante and Italy -- Chapter 1 Dante and Siena: Vanity, Humility, and the Mystery of Salvation -- Chapter 2 Brunetto Latini and Dante: A Literary Revenge -- Chapter 3 Paradiso 17: Consolation by Allusion -- Chapter 4 Decameron 10.3: Lives (and Near Death) of the Rich, Famous, Generous, . . . and Insecure -- Chapter 5 Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Dancers and the Government of the Nine: A New Interpretation -- Part 2: Lay Eschatologies and Christian Devotional Practices -- Chapter 6 The Date and Audience of Tertullian’s Ad martyras: A Letter to the Imprisoned Christians in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis -- Chapter 7 Hildegard’s Viriditas: The Holistic Greening of Premodern Medicine -- Chapter 8 Apocalyptic Women: Feminist Insights into Medieval Apocalypse Illustrations -- Chapter 9 Mulier in the Middle: The Contradictions of a Medieval Manuscript Miscellany in Its Own Time and in Victorian Oblivion -- Chapter 10 Portraits of Eternity: Time and Prayer in Books of Hours -- Part 3: Dante, Performance, and the Christian Tradition -- Chapter 11 Performing the Afterlife: Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Drama of the Medieval Church -- Chapter 12 “How I may save my soule?”: Vices and Virtues and Performing Knowledge in Langland’s Piers Plowman -- Chapter 13 Sacri Monti, Style, and the Politics of Franciscan Realism -- Chapter 14 By Indirections: Plots, Providence, and the Pirates of Hamlet -- Chapter 15 Othello in an Age of Calvinism -- Part 4: Dante In and Out of the Classroom -- Chapter 16 Dante’s Infernal Punishments Revisited -- Chapter 17 Reading and Teaching: What I Learned from Dante -- Chapter 18 Good Government in the Fourth Dimension: Keeping Time with Lorenzetti’s Dancers -- Chapter 19 Dante for Everyone -- Index
Summary: Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition honors Ronald B. Herzman, SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English. Over more than fifty years Professor Herzman has been a major force in the promotion of medieval studies within academe and public humanities. This volume of essays by his colleagues, students, and friends celebrates Professor Herzman’s outstanding career and reflects the wide range of his scholarly and pedagogical influence, from biblical and early Christian topics to Dante, Langland, and Shakespeare.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781501516870

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction -- Part 1: Dante and Italy -- Chapter 1 Dante and Siena: Vanity, Humility, and the Mystery of Salvation -- Chapter 2 Brunetto Latini and Dante: A Literary Revenge -- Chapter 3 Paradiso 17: Consolation by Allusion -- Chapter 4 Decameron 10.3: Lives (and Near Death) of the Rich, Famous, Generous, . . . and Insecure -- Chapter 5 Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Dancers and the Government of the Nine: A New Interpretation -- Part 2: Lay Eschatologies and Christian Devotional Practices -- Chapter 6 The Date and Audience of Tertullian’s Ad martyras: A Letter to the Imprisoned Christians in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis -- Chapter 7 Hildegard’s Viriditas: The Holistic Greening of Premodern Medicine -- Chapter 8 Apocalyptic Women: Feminist Insights into Medieval Apocalypse Illustrations -- Chapter 9 Mulier in the Middle: The Contradictions of a Medieval Manuscript Miscellany in Its Own Time and in Victorian Oblivion -- Chapter 10 Portraits of Eternity: Time and Prayer in Books of Hours -- Part 3: Dante, Performance, and the Christian Tradition -- Chapter 11 Performing the Afterlife: Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Drama of the Medieval Church -- Chapter 12 “How I may save my soule?”: Vices and Virtues and Performing Knowledge in Langland’s Piers Plowman -- Chapter 13 Sacri Monti, Style, and the Politics of Franciscan Realism -- Chapter 14 By Indirections: Plots, Providence, and the Pirates of Hamlet -- Chapter 15 Othello in an Age of Calvinism -- Part 4: Dante In and Out of the Classroom -- Chapter 16 Dante’s Infernal Punishments Revisited -- Chapter 17 Reading and Teaching: What I Learned from Dante -- Chapter 18 Good Government in the Fourth Dimension: Keeping Time with Lorenzetti’s Dancers -- Chapter 19 Dante for Everyone -- Index

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Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition honors Ronald B. Herzman, SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Teaching Professor of English. Over more than fifty years Professor Herzman has been a major force in the promotion of medieval studies within academe and public humanities. This volume of essays by his colleagues, students, and friends celebrates Professor Herzman’s outstanding career and reflects the wide range of his scholarly and pedagogical influence, from biblical and early Christian topics to Dante, Langland, and Shakespeare.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Nov 2024)

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