| Dante and the Franciscans: Poverty and the Papacy in the 'Commedia' Contributor(s): Havely, Nick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521099048 ISBN-13: 9780521099042 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $39.89 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2009 Annotation: This study will appeal to scholars interested in medieval religious and intellectual history. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | European - General |
| Dewey: 851.1 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6" W x 9" (0.77 lbs) 236 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nick Havely examines the connections between Dante, the Franciscans and the papacy in respect to fundamental aspects of the Commedia. Shedding new light on Dante's poem, he offers a detailed account of the Franciscans in late Medieval and early Renaissance Italy, which will be of interest to scholars of church history as well as literary scholars. |
Contributor Bio(s): Havely, Nick: - Nicholas Havely is senior lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. He is the translator of Chaucer's Boccaccio (1980, 1992); editor of The House of Fame (1994), Chaucer's Dream Poetry (1997) and Dante's Modern Afterlife (1998); and author of numerous articles on Italian and English medieval literature, including the chapter on `Literature in Italian, French and English' in volume VI of The New Cambridge Medieval History (2000). |