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Dante and the Practice of Humility
Category: Books > Theology > Theology Books
Author/Artist: RACHEL K. TEUBNER
ISBN / ID: 9781009315371
Publisher: Cambridge Uni Press
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: AU$56.95
  
Description: Rachel Teubner offers an exploration of humility in Dante's Divine Comedy, arguing that the poem is an ascetical exercise concerned with training its author gradually in the practice of humility, rather than being a reflection of authorial hubris. This is a contribution to recent scholarship that considers the poem to be a work of self-examination investigating its scriptural, literary, and liturgical sources, also offering fresh feminist perspectives on its theological challenges.

Teubner demonstrates how the poetry of the Comedy is theologically significant, focusing especially on the poem's definition of humility as ethically and artistically meaningful. Interrogating the text canto by canto, she also reveals how contemporary tools of literary analysis can offer new insights into its meaning.

Theologians and scholars of medieval religion will be introduced to a growing body of scholarship exploring Dante's religious thought. Undergraduate and novice readers will also find benefit.
 
 
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