| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) |
| Contents |
Beneath the law: infamia -- Beyond the law: arbitrium -- Above the law: privilegium -- Beside the law: pactum |
| Summary |
In Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's Divine Comedy. Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife dominated by elaborate laws, hierarchical jurisdictions, and rationalized punishments and rewards. Steinberg makes the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly-structured legal system to explore the phenomenon of exceptions to it, introducing Dante to crucial current debates about literature's relation to law, exceptionality, and sovereignty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Knowledge -- Law
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| SUBJECT |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 fast |
| Subject |
Law in literature.
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POETRY -- Continental European.
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Law
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Law in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226071121 |
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022607112X |
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