Experiencing The Afterlife
Subtitle: Soul And Body In Dante And Medieval Culture (William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies)
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: July 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780268029654
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Italian; Literary Criticism; European - Italian; Medieval; Poetry; Future life; Future life in literature; History and criticism; History of doctrines; Italian literature; Middle Ages, 600-1500; To 1400
First sentence: A deep ambivalence runs through thirteenth-century beliefs about body and soul, their nature, relationship, and destiny in the afterlife.