Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante's Commedia

by Helena Phillips-Robins

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268200688
• ISBN13: 9780268200688
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"