TY  - BOOK
AU  - Matthew Treherne
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781789979626
TI  - Dante’s «Commedia» and the Liturgical Imagination
DO  - 10.3726/b17470
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1059291
N2  - Medieval liturgical practice both expressed and helped shape habits of thought and imagination in ways which were deep and far-reaching, encompassing embodied, lived experience and the most sophisticated theological thought. This book argues that Dante, in common with his contemporaries, saw the liturgical rituals of the Church as a mode of religious practice which manifested what he considered to be the central truths regarding the relationship between God, human beings, and the world. It also shows how Dante’s Commedia engages with medieval understandings of the sacraments, an idea which has been largely neglected in studies of Dante. Seen in this way, the poet’s engagement with liturgy is central to the daring and highly original poetic project of the Commedia, shaping its treatment of time, its engagement with theology, and its portrayal of the soul’s awakening to the condition of creation itself.
KW  - Dante, medieval liturgy, medieval theology, Matthew Treherne, Dante’s Commedia and the Liturgical Imagination
LA  - English
ER  -