Dante, Eschatology, and the Christian Tradition: Essays in Honor of Ronald B. Herzman (Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures)

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