Glenn A Steinberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 2190901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Glenn A Steinberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Glenn A |
| FAMILY NAME | Steinberg |
| SIGNATURE | STEINBERG G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Plus ça change: Continuity in the theory and representation of monarchy in Dante and Bagehot
The constitutional monarchy of present-day Britain hardly seems the same sort of institution as fourteenth-century feudal kingdoms, but Dante's Monarchia (c. 1313) and Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1872) share fundamental assumptions about what the purpose and strengths of monarchy are. In the Monarchia, Dante lays out the essential attributes of monarchy that endure even today: authority, impartiality, and unity. Dante values and pr…
Deconstructing Dante: How things fall apart in the Paradiso
Much recent commentary on Dante’s Commedia focuses on Dante’s truth claims in the poem. Indeed, Teodolinda Barolini has proposed that “the fundamental question for all readers of Dante’s poem” is “How are we to respond to the poet’s insistence that he is telling us the truth?” I propose that the poem itself gives us guidance as to the seriousness of its claims to literal truth. It does so by actively deconstructing its own meaning at critical jun…
Dante, Virgil, and Christianity: Or Statius, sin, and clueless pagans in Inferno IV
Dante’s relationship to the virtuous pagans, most especially Virgil, has long been a point of contention. Most scholars would agree that at the heart of Dante’s ambivalence toward classical antiquity is his sense of a fundamental difference between paganism and Christianity. I explore here the specific nature of that difference by putting Inferno IV in the context of passages about light and sin from Scripture, as well as in the context of the Th…
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Dante, Virgil, and Christianity: Or Statius, sin, and clueless pagans in Inferno IV
Dante’s relationship to the virtuous pagans, most especially Virgil, has long been a point of contention. Most scholars would agree that at the heart of Dante’s ambivalence toward classical antiquity is his sense of a fundamental difference between paganism and Christianity. I explore here the specific nature of that difference by putting Inferno IV in the context of passages about light and sin from Scripture, as well as in the context of the Th…
Deconstructing Dante: How things fall apart in the Paradiso
Much recent commentary on Dante’s Commedia focuses on Dante’s truth claims in the poem. Indeed, Teodolinda Barolini has proposed that “the fundamental question for all readers of Dante’s poem” is “How are we to respond to the poet’s insistence that he is telling us the truth?” I propose that the poem itself gives us guidance as to the seriousness of its claims to literal truth. It does so by actively deconstructing its own meaning at critical jun…
Plus ça change: Continuity in the theory and representation of monarchy in Dante and Bagehot
The constitutional monarchy of present-day Britain hardly seems the same sort of institution as fourteenth-century feudal kingdoms, but Dante's Monarchia (c. 1313) and Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution (1872) share fundamental assumptions about what the purpose and strengths of monarchy are. In the Monarchia, Dante lays out the essential attributes of monarchy that endure even today: authority, impartiality, and unity. Dante values and pr…
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