| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) |
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Law language |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
Beneath the law: infamia -- Beyond the law: arbitrium -- Above the law: privilegium -- Beside the law: pactum. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 -- Knowledge and learning -- Law.
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. |
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Law in literature.
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Law in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Steinberg, Justin. Dante and the Limits of the Law. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013 9780226071091 |
| ISBN |
9780226071121 (electronic book) |
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022607112X (electronic book) |
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9780226071091 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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022607109X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.7208/chicago/9780226071121.001.0001 |
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