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8 produkter
Dante's Two Beloveds
Ethics and Erotics in the "Divine Comedy"
Inbunden, 2008
1071 kr
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Re-examining key passages in Dante’s oeuvre in the light of the crucial issue of moral choice, this book provides a new thematic framework for interpreting the Divine Comedy. Olivia Holmes shows how Dante articulated the relationship between the human and the divine as an erotic choice between two …
Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature
Ethics and Mischief in the Decameron
Inbunden, 2023
1741 kr
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This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron's response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich variety of Boccaccio's sources, ranging across Aesopic fables, narrative collections of Islamicate origin, sermon-stories …
Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature
Ethics and Mischief in the Decameron
E-bok, 2023
1724 kr
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This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron''s response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich variety of Boccaccio''s sources, ranging across Aesopic fables, narrative collections of Islamicate origin, …
Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature
Ethics and Mischief in the Decameron
E-bok, 2023
1724 kr
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This is the first monograph to provide a comprehensive interpretation of the Decameron''s response to classical and medieval didactic traditions. Olivia Holmes unearths the rich variety of Boccaccio''s sources, ranging across Aesopic fables, narrative collections of Islamicate origin, …
Reconsidering Boccaccio
Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts
Av Olivia Holmes, Dana Stewart
Inbunden, 2018
1115 kr
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Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks. Grounded in …
Reconsidering Boccaccio
Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts
Av Olivia Holmes, Dana Stewart
E-bok, 2018
1443 kr
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Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks. Grounded in …
Reconsidering Boccaccio
Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts
Av Olivia Holmes, Dana Stewart
E-bok, 2018
1443 kr
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Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range; and the influence of his legacy on numerous cultural networks. Grounded in …
Cleansing the Temple: Dante, Defender of the Church
Bernardo Lecture Series, No. 20
Av Ronald L. Martinez, Olivia Holmes
Häftad, 2017
268 kr
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Dante as protector and purifier of the Church.Readers of the Commedia are familiar with Dante's severe judgment of contemporary popes. The attacks are explicable as part of Dante's strategy of defending the Church itself, which the poet saw as imperiled by papal avarice and political ambition. From …
