War and Peace in Dante

CONTENTS: Joseph Canning (U Cambridge, Dante and just war; Hannah Skoda (St John’s College, Oxford), Differentiation or destruction? The effects of war on human and social bodies in the Commedia; John C. Barnes (UCD), Storming the Barbican: a military reading of Inferno VIII-IX; Stephen Milner (U Manchester), Dante as judge and jury in the Commedia; Spencer Pearce (U Manchester), The warfare within: conflict resolution and integration of the personality; Matthew Kempshall (Wadham College, Oxford), The utility of peace in Monarchia; Claire Honess (U Leeds), ‘Ecce nunc tempus acceptabile’: Henry VII and Dante’s ideal of peace; Elena Lombardi (Balliol College, Oxford), ‘Per aver pace co’ seguaci sui’: civil, spiritual and erotic peace in the Francesca episode; Matthew Treherne (U Leeds), Peace, kisses and bodily love in the Commedia; Vittorio Montemaggi (U Notre Dame), ‘E 'n la sua volontade e nostra pace’: peace, justice and the Trinity in the Commedia; Pamela Williams (U Hull), The pursuit of peace in Dante and Petrarch.