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About this book
This edited collection explores Dante Alighieri's contribution to medical, scientific, and spiritual thought in medieval and early modern times. The chapters address how Dante shaped an understanding of the human body and mind, his relationship with medical and scientific thought in his literary and philosophical production, and his legacy which continued into the following centuries. Each chapter questions Dante's contribution to these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective, thus putting medieval literatures in conversation with the history of medicine and science, politics, theology, and philosophy. Covering questions on the body, soul, matter, politics, and physics, this valuable book presents an overview of Dante's relationship with medical thought and the medieval sciences.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Front Matter
- 1.Ā Danteās Sciences of the Human: An Introduction
- 2.Ā When the Ocean Towered Above the Earth: Danteās Questio in Context
- 3.Ā Passion and Passionless Love in Dante: From Epistola 3 to the Commedia
- 4.Ā Anatomy of Florence: Illness and Body Politics in the Commedia
- 5.Ā Neither O nor I: The Handiwork of Inferno 24 and 25
- 6.Ā Disabled Bodies and Female Souls: From Dante to Marinella
- 7.Ā Speaking Like a Philosopher: Dante and Renaissance Treatises on Love
- Back Matter