Understanding the Medieval Meditative Ascent: Augustine, Anselm, Boethius, and Dante

By Robert J. McMahon and Robert McMahon

Book Overview

The Confessions, Proslogion, and Consolation of Philosophy, likethe Divine Comedy, all enact Platonist ascents. Each has a pilgrimfigure, guided dialogically on a journey of understanding. Each rises... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813214378
• ISBN13: 9780813214375
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 5.8"