{"product_id":"liturgical-song-and-practice-in-helena-phillips-robins-9780268200688","title":"Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante's Commedia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis study explores ways in which Dante presents liturgy as enabling humans to encounter God.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLiturgical Song and Practice in Dante's \"Commedia\u003c\/i\u003e,\" Helena Phillips-Robins explores for the first time the ways in which the relationship between humanity and divinity is shaped through the performance of liturgy in the \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e. The study draws on largely untapped thirteenth-century sources to reconstruct how the songs and prayers performed in the \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e were experienced and used in late medieval Tuscany. Phillips-Robins shows how in the \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e Dante refashions religious practices that shaped daily life in the Middle Ages and how Dante presents such practices as transforming and sustaining relationships between humans and the divine. The study focuses on the types of engagement that Dante's depictions of liturgical performance invite from the reader. Based on historically attentive analysis of liturgical practice and on analysis of the experiential and communal nature of liturgy, Phillips-Robins argues that Dante invites readers themselves to perform the poem's liturgical songs and, by doing so, to enter into relationship with the divine. Dante calls not only for readers' interpretative response to the \u003ci\u003eCommedia\u003c\/i\u003e but also for their performative and spiritual activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on \u003ci\u003ePurgatorio \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Paradiso\u003c\/i\u003e, Phillips-Robins investigates the particular ways in which relationships both between humans and between humans and God can unfold through liturgy. Her book includes explorations of liturgy as a means of enacting communal relationships that stretch across time and space; the Christological implications of participating in liturgy; the interplay of the personal and the shared enabled by the language of liturgy; and liturgy as a living out of the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love. The book will interest students and scholars of Dante studies, medieval Italian literature, and medieval theology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helena Phillips-Robins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268200688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268200688\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Helena Phillips-Robins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43987553353983,"sku":"9780268200688","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_648e80c6-f12d-4df7-a6c5-76600c197587.jpg?v=1683289674","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/liturgical-song-and-practice-in-helena-phillips-robins-9780268200688","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}