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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 January 2010
      05 May 1994
      ISBN:
      9780511611735
      9780521434546
      9780521021722
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511611735
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.557kg, 284 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.449kg, 284 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (22)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, European Literature, Anglo Saxon and Medieval Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature (22)
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    In this study, Steven Botterill explores the intellectual relationship between the greatest poet of the fourteenth century, Dante, and the greatest spiritual writer of the twelfth century, Bernard of Clairvaux. Botterill analyses the narrative episode involving Bernard as a character in the closing cantos of the Paradiso, against the background of his medieval reputation as a contemplative mystic, devotee of Mary, and, above all, a preacher of outstanding eloquence. Botterill draws on a wide range of materials to establish and illustrate the connections between Bernard's reputation and his portrayal in Dante's poem. Botterill's fresh approach to the analysis of the whole episode will provoke the reader to re-evaluate the significance and implications of Bernard's presence in the Commedia.

    Reviews

    "...[an] intelligent, well-written book..." Peter S. Hawkins, Yale University, Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies

    "...an engaging study of the cultural mystical meaning of the mysticism of St. Bernard as portrayed in the vision of God conclusion of the Divine Comedy...Botterill's thesis should grasp the attention of Dante scholars and students of mysticism." The Reader's Review

    "...the erudition marshaled in Part 2 is certainly impressive and largely convincing..." R. A. Shoaf, Choice

    "...investigates the intellectual relationship between Dante and St. Bernard. He analyses the narrative episode about Bernard as a medieval mystic...he examines carefully the two areas in which a direct intellectual influence of Bernard on Dante has been noted: the portrayal of Mary in the .s:Commediar: and the idea of trasumanar in .s:Paradisor: i, 70." Manuscripta

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