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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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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ Havely, N
- Sub department:
- French
- Role:
- Editor
+ Katz, J
- Institution:
- University of Oxford
- Oxford college:
- St Anne's College
- Role:
- Editor
+ Cooper, R
- 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
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English
- Subtype:
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Chapter
- Pubs id:
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1491232
- Local pid:
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pubs:1491232
- Deposit date:
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2023-07-09
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- Modern Humanities Research Association, Legenda
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © 2021 Modern Humanities Research Association, Legenda.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Legenda at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2dzzqxq.25
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