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Brenda Deen Schildgen
This book unveils Boccaccio's defence of literature against claims of immorality by showcasing how both pagan and Christian literary works serve to heal, console, and provoke thoughtfulness.
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This text explores Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales outside a Christian-dominated world - tales that pit Christian teleological ethics and history against the imagined beliefs and practices of Moslems, Jews, pagans, and…
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Here is a compact study of how Mark’s Gospel meditates on time. It examines how the Gospel’s contemporary setting in ordinary time defines its genre, and how Mark uses the…
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Looks at the influence of Orosius and Augustine, as well as of the Bible and Virgil, on Dante’s view of the notion of providential history.
This study explores how Dante represents violence in the Comedy and reveals the connection between contemporary private and public violence and civic and canon law violations.
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Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient…
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Discusses significant readings of Romans through twelfth and thirteenth centuries to the eve of Reformation. This volume attests the dominant role of scripture in communal life and witnesses to the…
