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Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante's Commedia

Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante's Commedia

Phillips-Robins, Helena

Hardcover

Series: William and Katherine Devers Dante and Medieval Italian Literature

Literary CriticismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0268200688
ISBN13: 9780268200688
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Apr 15 2021
Pages: 324
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This 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.

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