Dante's gluttons: food and society from the Convivio to the Comedy

<i>Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy</i> explores how, in his work, medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to articulate, reinforce, criticize, and correct the social, political, and cultural values of his time. Combining medieva...

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Beteilige Person: Callegari, Danielle ca. 20./21. Jh (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press 2022
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048550036
https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048550036
https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048550036
https://doi.org/10.1017/9789048550036
Zusammenfassung:<i>Dante's Gluttons: Food and Society from the Convivio to the Comedy</i> explores how, in his work, medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) uses food to articulate, reinforce, criticize, and correct the social, political, and cultural values of his time. Combining medieval history, food studies, and literary criticism, <i>Dante's Gluttons</i> historicizes food and eating in Dante, beginning in his earliest collected poetry and arriving at the end of his major work. For Dante, the consumption of food is not a frivolity, but a crux of life in the most profound sense of the term, and gluttony is the abdication of civic and spiritual responsibility and a danger to the individual body and soul as well as to the collective. This book establishes how one of the world's preeminent authors uses the intimacy and universality of food as a touchstone, communicating through a gastronomic language rooted in the deeply human relationship with material sustenance
Beschreibung:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Sep 2022)
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (194 Seiten)
ISBN:9789048550036
DOI:10.1017/9789048550036