Steinberg, Justin. <br/><br/>
Dante and the limits of the lawJustin Steinberg. 

 - Chicago :  University of Chicago Press,  (c)2013. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 231 pages) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> In Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's Divine Comedy. Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife dominated by elaborate laws, hierarchical jurisdictions, and rationalized punishments and rewards. Steinberg makes the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly-structured legal system to explore the phenomenon of exceptions to it, introducing Dante to crucial current debates about literature's relation to law, exceptionality, and sovereignty. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226071121 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 --Knowledge--Law.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Law in literature.<br/>Dante Alighieri.<br/>English literature.<br/>Law in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ4432  / .D368 2013