Dante''s Christian Ethics - Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts

A major re-appraisal of Dante's Commedia - as it was originally envisaged - as a work of ethics.

List of contents

Part I. Ethical and Political Manifesto: 1. Dante's ethical agenda: vital nourishment; 2. Dante's political polemic: church and empire; Part II. Reframing Dante's Christian Ethics: 3. Dante's theological purgatory: earthly happiness and eternal beatitude; 4. Two traditions of Christian ethics: Aquinas and Peraldus; Part III. Penance and Dante's Purgatory: 5. The terrace of pride, and the poet as preacher; 6. The terrace of sloth, and the sin of scholars; 7. The terrace of avarice, and love of children.

About the author

George Corbett is Senior Lecturer in Theology and the Arts, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews, Scotland. Prior to this, he was Junior Research Fellow of Trinity College, and Affiliated Lecturer in Italian, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment (2013), editor of Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century (2019), and co-editor, with Heather Webb, of Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy, Volume 1-3 (2015–17), a major reappraisal of the poem in three volumes. He received a bronze medal from the Società Dantesca Italiana in Florence on the 750th anniversary of Dante's birth in 2015.

Summary

This book provides fresh, scholarly, but accessible analyses of key areas of Dante's thought and poetry, including his ethics, politics, eschatology, conception of Purgatory, and moral autobiography. It will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of Dante.

Product details

• Authors: George Corbett, George (University of St Andrews Corbett, Corbett George
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781108489416
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48941-6
• No. of pages: 246
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature; Cambridge Studies in Medieval
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Italien, Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik, Southern Europe, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literature - Classics / Criticism, POETRY / European / Italian, Italy, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval