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Dante’s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England
Jonathan Hughes
其他書名
The Collision of Two Worlds
出版Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022-02-24
主題History / Social HistoryLiterary Criticism / MedievalHistory / Europe / Great Britain / Norman Conquest to Late Medieval (1066-1485)Literary Criticism / Ancient & ClassicalHistory / Europe / Medieval
ISBN13501463079781350146303
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IzFeEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England compares the intellectual, emotional, and religious world of Dante in 13th-century Florence with that of a group of English intellectuals gathered around Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the King, Henry VI.

Here, Jonathan Hughes establishes that there was a Renaissance in 15th-century England, encouraged by the discovery and translations of works of Greek philosophers and developments in science and medicine; and that vernacular writers in Gloucester's circle, such as John Lydgate and Robert Hoccleve, were of fundamental importance in exploring the meaning of the self and man's relationship with the natural world and the classical past. However, the appearance in 15th-century England of Dante's 'Commedia', the most popular work of the Middle Ages, served to remind writers and readers of the cost of intellectual enquiry: the loss of faith in a harmonious and beautiful world; the redemptive power of the love of a woman; and the tangible presence of an afterlife.

Engagingly written and meticulously researched, this innovative study shines a new perspective on Dante scholarship as well as offering a unique anaylsis of intellectual thought and culture in 15th-century England.