Chapter 11 Performing the Afterlife: Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Drama of the Medieval Church

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of Figures and Tables XI
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Dante and Italy
6. Chapter 1 Dante and Siena: Vanity, Humility, and the Mystery of Salvation 9
7. Chapter 2 Brunetto Latini and Dante: A Literary Revenge 25
8. Chapter 3 Paradiso 17: Consolation by Allusion 43
9. Chapter 4 Decameron 10.3: Lives (and Near Death) of the Rich, Famous, Generous, . . . and Insecure 59
10. Chapter 5 Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Dancers and the Government of the Nine: A New Interpretation 75
11. Part 2: Lay Eschatologies and Christian Devotional Practices
12. Chapter 6 The Date and Audience of Tertullian’s Ad martyras: A Letter to the Imprisoned Christians in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis 91
13. Chapter 7 Hildegard’s Viriditas: The Holistic Greening of Premodern Medicine 107
14. Chapter 8 Apocalyptic Women: Feminist Insights into Medieval Apocalypse Illustrations 125
15. Chapter 9 Mulier in the Middle: The Contradictions of a Medieval Manuscript Miscellany in Its Own Time and in Victorian Oblivion 145
16. Chapter 10 Portraits of Eternity: Time and Prayer in Books of Hours 159
17. Part 3: Dante, Performance, and the Christian Tradition
18. Chapter 11 Performing the Afterlife: Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Drama of the Medieval Church 183
19. Chapter 12 “How I may save my soule?”: Vices and Virtues and Performing Knowledge in Langland’s Piers Plowman 201
20. Chapter 13 Sacri Monti, Style, and the Politics of Franciscan Realism 217
21. Chapter 14 By Indirections: Plots, Providence, and the Pirates of Hamlet 237
22. Chapter 15 Othello in an Age of Calvinism 253
23. Part 4: Dante In and Out of the Classroom
24. Chapter 16 Dante’s Infernal Punishments Revisited 271
25. Chapter 17 Reading and Teaching: What I Learned from Dante 287
26. Chapter 18 Good Government in the Fourth Dimension: Keeping Time with Lorenzetti’s Dancers 305
27. Chapter 19 Dante for Everyone 321
28. Index 331