Dante and the Medieval City: How the Dead Live.
- Author / Editor
- Pike, David L.
Dante and the Medieval City: How the Dead Live.
- Published
- Suzanne Conklin Akbari and James Simpson, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 351-67.
- Description
- Maps out Dante's depiction of the infernal city and traces the "infernal mode of representation of urban experience," by suggesting that Dante describes the city
with an "urban variation on the vertical cosmos of the Last Judgment." Documents the influence of this depiction of the infernal city on Boccaccio, Chaucer, François Villon, and Christine de Pizan.
- Alternative Title
- Oxford Handbook of Chaucer
- Chaucer Subjects
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations