 | Understanding the Medieval Meditative Ascent: Augustine, Anselm, Boethius and Dante Subjects: Devotional literature -- History and criticism; Augustine Saint Bishop of Hippo. Confessiones; Anselm Saint Archbishop of Canterbury 1033–1109. Proslogion; Boethius d. 524. De consolatione philosophiae; Dante Alighieri 1265–1321. Divina commedia; Understanding the Medieval Meditative Ascent uses literary analysis to discover new philosophical meanings in these works. Clearly written in nontechnical language, its account of their literary structures and of the hidden meanings they generate will inform nonspecialist and specialist alike. |
