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Dante and death in late-medieval France

Abstract:
‘Although Dante was known by name in fifteenth-century France, his influence was scant.’¹ The Dante Encyclopedia’s entry for ‘Dante in France’ offers an unpromising opening for thinking about and with Dante in late-medieval French literature. I do not argue here for hitherto grossly underestimated influence, but do wish to consider carefully how we retrospectively frame reception of and responses to the Commedia in particular. I should argue, for instance, for ‘scattered’ rather than ‘scant’ — meagre findings depend upon the sources in which one has searched, and, for the fifteenth century, there is much currently under-studied literature that was nonetheless...
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
Sub department:
French
Oxford college:
St Hilda's College
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-3998-2809

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Sub department:
French
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Editor
Institution:
University of Oxford
Oxford college:
St Anne's College
Role:
Editor
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Medieval & Modern Languages Faculty
Role:
Editor


Publisher:
Legenda
Host title:
Dante Beyond Borders: Contexts and Reception
Pages:
180-192
Chapter number:
14
Series:
Italian Perspectives
Series number:
52
Publication date:
2021-11-17
Edition:
1
EISBN:
9781781888384
ISBN-10:
1781888302
ISBN-13:
9781781888308


Language:
English
Subtype:
Chapter
Pubs id:
1491232
Local pid:
pubs:1491232
Deposit date:
2023-07-09

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