Dante And The Limits Of The Law
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780226071091
Description: In this work, Justin Steinberg offers a comprehensive study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's 'Divine Comedy'. Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife dominated by elaborate laws, hierarchical jurisdictions, and rationalized punishments and rewards.