Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages

Dante and His Precursors

By (author) Ernest L. Fortin Translated by Marc A. LePain

Paperback - £42.00

Publication date:

26 July 2002

Length of book:

192 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

Dimensions:

226x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780739103272

Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages offers scholars of Dante's Divine Comedy an integral understanding of the political, philosophical, and religious context of the medieval masterwork. First penned in French by Ernest L. Fortin, one of America's foremost thinkers in the fields of philosophy and theology, Dissidence et philosophie au moyen-%ge brings to light the complexity of Dante's thought and art, and its relation to the central themes of Western civilization. Available in English for the first time through this superb translation by Marc A. LePain, Dissent and Philosophy will make a supremely important contribution to the discussion of Dante as poet, theologian, and philosopher.
This is intellectual history at its best. It ranges over Islamic and Jewish thought, as well as the Greco-Latin tradition, and places Dante in an illuminating way. Essential for Dante studies.