Dante and the Practice of Humility

Rachel K Teubner

ISBN 10: 1009315374 / ISBN 13: 9781009315371

Published by Cambridge University Press Jul 2025, 2025

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Neuware - In this book, Rachel Teubner offers an exploration of humility in Dante'sDivine Comedy,arguing that the poem is an ascetical exercise concerned with training its author gradually in the practice of humility, rather than being a reflection of authorial hubris. A contribution to recent scholarship that considers thepoem to be a work of self-examination, her volumeinvestigatesits scriptural, literary, and liturgical sources, also offering fresh feminist perspectives on its theological challenges. Teubner demonstrates how the poetry of theComedyis theologically significant, focusing especially on the poem's definition of humility as ethically and artistically meaningful. Interrogating the text canto by canto, she also reveals how contemporary tools of literary analysis can offer new insights into its meaning. Undergraduate and novice readers will benefit from this companion, just as theologians and scholars of medieval religion will be introduced to a growing body of scholarship exploring Dante's religious thought.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dante and the Practice of Humility
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Jul 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009315374
• ISBN 13: 9781009315371
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 21D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 490 grams

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Synopsis

In this book, Rachel Teubner offers an exploration of humility in Dante's Divine Comedy, arguing that the poem is an ascetical exercise concerned with training its author gradually in the practice of humility, rather than being a reflection of authorial hubris. A contribution to recent scholarship that considers the poem to be a work of self-examination, her volume investigates its scriptural, literary, and liturgical sources, also offering fresh feminist perspectives on its theological challenges. Teubner demonstrates how the poetry of the Comedy is theologically significant, focusing especially on the poem's definition of humility as ethically and artistically meaningful. Interrogating the text canto by canto, she also reveals how contemporary tools of literary analysis can offer new insights into its meaning. Undergraduate and novice readers will benefit from this companion, just as theologians and scholars of medieval religion will be introduced to a growing body of scholarship exploring Dante's religious thought.

About the Author

Rachel K. Teubner is a Research Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Australian Catholic University's Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry. She has held fellowships at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and the Institute for Critical Inquiry in Berlin. Her current research explores genre, gender and theology in women's lyric writings during the long Reformation.