Romance Studies 3: Dante

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Deyermond
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
General Studies ◽  
Divina Commedia

This chapter examines British studies and research with regard to medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri. It explains that Dante and his Divina commedia have been a central preoccupation of British Italianists throughout the twentieth century and that it was the focus of the first two volumes of the influential Cambridge Studies on Medieval Literature series. Notable general studies of the Commedia include Sir Cyril Hinshelwood's article on its imagery, Sheila Ralphs' short book on allegorical patterns, and two longer books by Jeremy Tambling and Patrick Boyde.

On the origin of khutū

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 306-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. LAVERS ◽  
M. KNAPP
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Ice Age ◽  
New Hypothesis

Khutū was a material derived from an animal used by Medieval Asian peoples in the manufacture of knife handles and as an alexipharmic. Al-Bīrūnī (973–1048) made extensive enquiries into the origin of khutū but reached no definite conclusion. Literary scholars in the first half of the twentieth century identified the walrus and narwhal as probable sources, but in ignoring aspects of the literature on khutū’s appearance and provenance left a number of questions unanswered. We clarify and extend this research and identify further clues to the identity of khutū. We concur that walrus ivory was one source of khutū, suggest that the remains of “Ice Age” mammals may have influenced development of the medieval literature on khutū more than previous investigators realized, and offer a new hypothesis of khutū’s origin.

Dante

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Carracchia
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Divina Commedia

Oggi, nell’anno del Signore 2021, a 700 anni dalla morte del sommo Dante Alighieri, ci si chiede: “Perché un’opera letteraria come la Divina Commedia, cambiati tempi e costumanze, continua, dopo circa settecento anni, ancora ad affascinare?” Affascinare non solo poeti, letterati, artisti ma, incredibilmente, anche i fotografi, che “scrivono con la luce”, come dice l’etimologia, ciò che essi guardano. L’immagine fotografica può essere usata in senso metaforico per illustrare, interpretare, commentare, oggi, la Divina Commedia? La risposta non può essere che affermativa, poiché Dante Alighieri ha scritto degli eterni interrogativi dell’uomo: la tristezza, la violenza, l’avarizia… ma anche la bellezza, la santità, l’amore e così di seguito. E Francesco Carracchia, medico e fotografo, si è messo alla prova con le sue immagini, che ritraggono situazioni fortemente simboliche oltre che di notevole impatto espressivo. La Divina Commedia è un “racconto” in versi. La novità, grazie alla nuova Musa della fotografia, è stata di usare immagini fotografiche che rispecchiano il mondo attuale.

La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri. Vol. I. Inferno

1923 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
E. G. Gardner ◽  
S. A. Barbi
Keyword(s):  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Divina Commedia

scholarly journals Medieval echoes. Reflection on political theories and cultural trends from European Middle Ages during American Wars of Independence and Between the States

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. e011
Author(s):  
Xosé M. Sánchez Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Canon Law ◽  
Dante Alighieri ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Political History ◽  
Political Theories ◽  
Divina Commedia

This article examines the influence of formulations and lines of European medieval thought and culture during the two main processes of American political history: the American Wars of Independence and Between the States. In these moments of enormous significance, we can perceive a series of formulations alive since Middle Age centuries; principles with a no evident but relevant influence in mentality and perception during the conflicts. These are: federalism, constitutionalism, canon law, the concept of war, the reception of the work of Dante Alighieri and his ‘Divina Commedia’ and the reception of chivalric medieval culture and the Arthurian tradition.

scholarly journals Intertextuality and Arthurian Women in David Lodge’s Small World (1984)

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 98-120
Author(s):  
Anastasija Ropa ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Women Characters ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Small World ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
Twin Sister ◽  
Grail Quest ◽  
Traditional Roles

The present article analyses intertextual references in David Lodge’s Small World. An Academic Romance (1984), focusing on allusions to the corpus of medieval and twentieth-century Arthuriana in the representation of women characters. An analysis of Arthurian allusions in the portrayal of women characters shows that Lodge introduces Arthurian women to his academic ‘Camelot’ in response to medieval and post-medieval literature about King Arthur and the Grail quest. In this respect, his representation of academic women in Small World is different from the way they are described in Lodge’s other academic novels, Changing Places and Nice Work. Lodge rarely recasts Arthurian women characters as his heroines with the exception of Prof Fulvia Morgana, who is modelled on the Arthurian sorceress Morgane/Morgause. Nevertheless, in Small World, women appear in the traditional roles of being the object of a ‘knight’s’ quest, such as Persse’s beloved Angelica and Swallow’s lover Joy, and wise advisors (Miss Maiden). Alternatively, women are portrayed as antagonistic or negative characters, the so-called ‘whores’ or ‘demonic temptresses’: such are Angelica’s twin sister Lily and the lusty Fulvia Morgana.

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