Peter S Hawkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 358322 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter S Hawkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter S |
| FAMILY NAME | Hawkins |
| SIGNATURE | HAWKINS P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1Yale University Divinity School |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins
A fresh consideration of the enduring tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, showing its continuing post-medieval influence.
Dante's Rahab
Dante's Rahab Peter S. Hawkins (bio) When I first fell under John Freccero's spell in 1973, I was a Yale doctoral student seeking refuge from the English department. I was brought to the first meeting of his year-long Dante course by a refugee from French, but unlike her, I vowed only to sit in on the opening day: I was to be a one-time interloper in Corby Court. Yet by the end of that September day Dante—and his prophet, John Freccero—had me not…
Scrolls of Love
This book is edited by a Jew and a Christian who are united by a shared passion for the Bible and a common literary hermeneutic. It joins two biblical scrolls and gathers around them a diverse community of interpreters. It brings together Ruth and the Song of Songs, two seemingly disparate texts of the Hebrew Bible, and reads them through a number of methodological and theological perspectives. Respectful of traditional biblical scholarship, the …
Flannery O'Connor: What's New
Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the "Commedia." . Steven Botterill
Naming Names: The Art of Memory and the Names Project Aids Quilt
Dido, Beatrice, and the Signs of Ancient Love
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (Purgatorio, cantos xxix-xxxiii). Peter Armour
The Language of Grace
From Mythography to Myth-Making: Spenser and the Magna Mater Cybele
Du mythe de Cybele a la mythopoese spenserienne: la renaissance du mythe dans The Faerie Queene
Trespassing on the Word: God's Book and Ours
In Paradiso XXVI Adam tells Dante that the cause of the Fall lay in the trapassar del segno, the “trespass of the sign. ”This refers most immediately to the first human violation of divine law, yet Dante did not choose the word for trespass, trasgressione, but took instead a verb meaning “to pass away” or “to die” and transformed it into a noun, “the passing away of the sign. ” We are perhaps not too far off the mark, then, if we see in Adam’s “t…
Polemical Counterpoint in “De Civitate Dei”
Polemical Counterpoint in “De Civitate Dei”
Trespassing on the Word: God's Book and Ours
In Paradiso XXVI Adam tells Dante that the cause of the Fall lay in the trapassar del segno, the “trespass of the sign. ”This refers most immediately to the first human violation of divine law, yet Dante did not choose the word for trespass, trasgressione, but took instead a verb meaning “to pass away” or “to die” and transformed it into a noun, “the passing away of the sign. ” We are perhaps not too far off the mark, then, if we see in Adam’s “t…
From Mythography to Myth-Making: Spenser and the Magna Mater Cybele
Du mythe de Cybele a la mythopoese spenserienne: la renaissance du mythe dans The Faerie Queene
The Language of Grace
Dido, Beatrice, and the Signs of Ancient Love
Dante's Griffin and the History of the World: A Study of the Earthly Paradise (Purgatorio, cantos xxix-xxxiii). Peter Armour
Naming Names: The Art of Memory and the Names Project Aids Quilt
Flannery O'Connor: What's New
Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the "Commedia." . Steven Botterill
Scrolls of Love
This book is edited by a Jew and a Christian who are united by a shared passion for the Bible and a common literary hermeneutic. It joins two biblical scrolls and gathers around them a diverse community of interpreters. It brings together Ruth and the Song of Songs, two seemingly disparate texts of the Hebrew Bible, and reads them through a number of methodological and theological perspectives. Respectful of traditional biblical scholarship, the …
Dante's Rahab
Dante's Rahab Peter S. Hawkins (bio) When I first fell under John Freccero's spell in 1973, I was a Yale doctoral student seeking refuge from the English department. I was brought to the first meeting of his year-long Dante course by a refugee from French, but unlike her, I vowed only to sit in on the opening day: I was to be a one-time interloper in Corby Court. Yet by the end of that September day Dante—and his prophet, John Freccero—had me not…
Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins
A fresh consideration of the enduring tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, showing its continuing post-medieval influence.
Art (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Art history (5 works) · Classics (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Medieval Literature and History (3 works) · Medieval Philosophy and Theology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)