Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition
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Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition

Essays in Honor of Ronald B. Herzman

  1. 347 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition

Essays in Honor of Ronald B. Herzman

About this book

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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Table of contents

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