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Dante and the Legibility of the Universe: Facts and Narratives
Assembling The Lyric Self
Assembling the Lyric Self investigates the transition in the 13th and 14th centuries from the first surviving manuscripts to the single-author codex. It explores the efforts of …
Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature
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 …
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Nogle dage tror Marthe Gail, hun er Gud. Andre dage, at hun er Jesus. Hendes nyfødte baby, tror hun, er død. Det røde lys skinner. Der er tremmer for vinduerne. Og stemmer bliver …
Boccaccio and Exemplary Literature
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 …
Cleansing the Temple: Dante, Defender 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, …
Reconsidering Boccaccio
Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio’s remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional …
Reconsidering Boccaccio
Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio's remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional …
Dante's Two Beloveds
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. …
Refugee Tales
Upon changing his religion, a young man is denounced as an apostate and flees his country hiding in the back of a freezer lorry… After years of travelling and losing almost …
Reconsidering Boccaccio
Reconsidering Boccaccio highlights the great Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio's remarkable achievements in the fourteenth century as a cultural mediator; his exceptional …