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OverviewThis study explores ways in which Dante presents liturgy as enabling humans to encounter God. In Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante's ""Commedia,"" Helena Phillips-Robins explores for the first time the ways in which the relationship between humanity and divinity is shaped through the performance of liturgy in the Commedia. The study draws on largely untapped thirteenth-century sources to reconstruct how the songs and prayers performed in the Commedia were experienced and used in late medieval Tuscany. Phillips-Robins shows how in the Commedia Dante refashions religious practices that shaped daily life in the Middle Ages and how Dante presents such practices as transforming and sustaining relationships between humans and the divine. The study focuses on the types of engagement that Dante's depictions of liturgical performance invite from the reader. Based on historically attentive analysis of liturgical practice and on analysis of the experiential and communal nature of liturgy, Phillips-Robins argues that Dante invites readers themselves to perform the poem's liturgical songs and, by doing so, to enter into relationship with the divine. Dante calls not only for readers' interpretative response to the Commedia but also for their performative and spiritual activity. Focusing on Purgatorio and Paradiso, Phillips-Robins investigates the particular ways in which relationships both between humans and between humans and God can unfold through liturgy. Her book includes explorations of liturgy as a means of enacting communal relationships that stretch across time and space; the Christological implications of participating in liturgy; the interplay of the personal and the shared enabled by the language of liturgy; and liturgy as a living out of the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love. The book will interest students and scholars of Dante studies, medieval Italian literature, and medieval theology. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Helena Phillips-RobinsPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm ISBN: 9780268200688ISBN 10: 0268200688 Pages: 324 Publication Date: 15 April 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1. Liturgy and Community 2. Liturgy and Participation in Christ 3. The Shared Voice of Liturgical Prayer 4. Liturgy and Love ConclusionReviewsLiturgical Song and Practice in Dante's 'Commedia' is highly original. It offers the first sustained treatment of its topic, providing substantial and wide-ranging insight on the nature and implications of the Commedia's representation of, engagement with, and conscious self-articulation of the relationship between humanity and divinity expressed in and as liturgy. -Vittorio Montemaggi, co-editor of Dante's Commedia Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante's 'Commedia' is highly original. It offers the first sustained treatment of its topic, providing substantial and wide-ranging insight on the nature and implications of the Commedia's representation of, engagement with, and conscious self-articulation of the relationship between humanity and divinity expressed in and as liturgy. -Vittorio Montemaggi, co-editor of Dante's Commedia : Theology as Poetry Author InformationHelena Phillips-Robins is a research fellow of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |