Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth

This collection of essays is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has been published. Its title evokes the moment whe

Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of B

This volume acknowledges the centrality of comic invective in a range of oratorical institutions (especially forensic and symbouleutic), and aspires to enhance

Older research on the premodern world limited its focus on the Church, the court, and, more recently, on urban space. The present volume invites readers to cons