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Renaissance studies

Dante and the human body

Dante and the human body

The essays in this volume explore Dante’s interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, literary scholars and theologians. See *contents* button at left for a full list of essays...The essays in this volume explore Dante’s interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of...
Author/Editor: John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, editors
Italian culture

Italian culture

Interactions, transpositions, translations

At a seminar in April 2002 at Trinity College Dublin, marking the retirement of Professor Corinna Salvadori, former students, recent graduates, colleagues and friends contributed papers on a variety of subjects. The occasion also celebrated nearly 230 years of...At a seminar in April 2002 at Trinity College Dublin, marking the retirement of Professor Corinna Salvadori, former students, recent graduates, colleagues...
Author/Editor: Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin Corinna Salvadori & John Scattergood editors
Patterns in Dante
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Patterns in Dante

Interesting collection of essays relating to Dante’s works that offers fresh literary interpretations, concluding with an extensive index of references to Dante’s works as well as an index of names. *Contributors:* Mark Davie (University of Exeter); P. Armour (Royal Holloway,...Interesting collection of essays relating to Dante’s works that offers fresh literary interpretations, concluding with an extensive index of references to Dante’s...
Author/Editor: Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin & Jennifer Petrie, editors
Studies in late medieval and early renaissance texts in honour of John Scattergood
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Studies in late medieval and early renaissance texts in honour of John Scattergood

Essays published in honour of the Trinity College-based scholar who has been at the forefront of Middle English studies in Ireland for many years. *Anne Marie D’Arcy* is lecturer in medieval and Renaissance literature, U Leicester. *Alan J. Fletcher* lectures...Essays published in honour of the Trinity College-based scholar who has been at the forefront of Middle English studies in Ireland for...
Author/Editor: Anne Marie D'Arcy & Alan J. Fletcher, editors
Dante Metamorphoses

Dante Metamorphoses

Episodes in a literary afterlife

These essays show how Dante’s Commedia was appropriated across Europe through the ages, beginning in 15th-century Spain and finishing in 19th-century Italy. Published in conjunction with the Foundation of Italian Studies at University College Dublin, it demonstrates how ‘globalization’ –...These essays show how Dante’s Commedia was appropriated across Europe through the ages, beginning in 15th-century Spain and finishing in 19th-century Italy....
Author/Editor: Eric Haywood, editor
Wisdom and the Grail
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Wisdom and the Grail

The image of the vessel in the Queste del Saint Graal and Malory’s Tale of Sankgreal

Wisdom and the Grail investigates the symbol of the Holy Grail in the Queste del Saint Graal, a branch of the Vulgate prose cycle of Arthurian romances, and Thomas Malory’s redaction of this Old French text, The Tale...Wisdom and the Grail investigates the symbol of the Holy Grail in the Queste del Saint Graal, a branch of the...
Author/Editor: Anne Marie D'Arcy
Text and gloss

Text and gloss

Studies in insular language and literature

Text and Gloss casts a wide net across the study and creation of texts and the appropriation and application of Mediterranean culture in Anglo-Saxon England and early Christian Ireland. The sum of its parts is a sense of...Text and Gloss casts a wide net across the study and creation of texts and the appropriation and application of Mediterranean culture...
Author/Editor: Helen Conrad-O'Briain Anne-Marie D'Arcy & John Scattergood editors