Humility in Motion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2023
The conclusion reviews the constructive proposals of the poem with respect to humility as an action performed, while placing them within the broader view of the poem’s plurality of Christian traditions and its openness to disagreement and revision. Returning to provocations from Harold Bloom and Erich Auerbach, I argue that Dante’s poem is a creative achievement that, in the end, may be seen actually to be fueled by the miscellany of Christian stories, conflicts, and encounters.
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