Dante’s Christian ethics : purgatory and its moral contexts
- Submitting institution
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University of St Andrews
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 265898647
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1017/9781108776875
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108489416
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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C - Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This substantial research monograph (approximately 110,000 words) arises from seven years of research, and is a major, in-depth reappraisal of Dante’s Commedia as originally envisaged by Dante: as a work of Christian ethics. The book significantly expands scholarly knowledge of the theological influences on Dante, including analysis of under-studied primary Latin sources for which there is no critical edition or translation. The book synthesises the extremely complex secondary literature on the topic (requiring a lengthy period of investigation), and it proposes innovative interpretative solutions to some of the puzzles surrounding the poem’s moral structure, political theology, eschatology, and individual passages.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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