Dante’s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England: The Collision of Two Worlds
Author:   Dr Jonathan Hughes (University of Exeter, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781350146273


Pages:   440
Publication Date:   24 February 2022
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Dr Jonathan Hughes (University of Exeter, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.654kg
ISBN:  

9781350146273


ISBN 10:   1350146277
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   24 February 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgements and Foreword Introduction 1. Mercury: The Arrival of Dante in England 1370-1450 2. Jupiter: Ancient Rome 3. Apollo (the Sun): The Legacy of Ancient Greece 4. Venus: Nature and Science 5. The Fixed Stars: Fortune 6. Luna (the Moon): Women 7. The Primum Mobile and the Empyrean: Love and the Afterlife 8. Saturn: Melancholia 9. Terram (the Earth): Conclusion and the Afterlife of The Divine Comedy Bibliography Index

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Jonathan Hughes’s Dante’s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England details how we might view an earlier Renaissance occurring in fifteenth-century England through interesting connections to Dante’s world… the book offers fascinating new insights into these connections between Italy and England. * Journal of British Studies *


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Jonathan Hughes is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. He is also Guest Lecturer at the Exeter Centre for the Study of Esotericism, UK. His books include Pastors and Visionaries: Religion and Secular Life in Late Medieval Yorkshire (1988), The Religious Life of Richard III (1997) and Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV (2002).

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