Dante’s «Commedia» and the Liturgical Imagination

Matthew Treherne is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Leeds, where he co-founded the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies with Claire Honess. He is co-editor, with Vittorio Montemaggi, of Dante’s «Commedia»: Theology as Poetry (2010), and, with Claire Honess, of Reviewing Dante’s Theology (2 vols, 2013), and «Se mai continga…»: Exile, Politics and Theology in Dante (2013). He was Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded project «Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society» and runs the Leeds Dante Podcast. At Leeds, he has been Head of the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies and Director of the Leeds Humanities Research Institute.

• CONTENTS: Dante, Liturgy, Theology – Liturgy, Time, and the Music of Incarnation in the Commedia – Ekphrasis and Eucharist: The Poetics of Seeing God’s Art in Purgatorio X – Contingency, Creation, and the Eucharist in the Commedia – Liturgical Personhood in the Commedia: Creation, Penitence, and Praise – Liturgy, Sacraments, and the Theology of the Commedia – Dante’s Liturgical Imagination, Then and Now.