medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Two ideas come to mind:
1. Search the passage on the Darthmouth Dante Project database to fiind
what the commentators said about it.
2. Look at material on the book of hours (e.g., R.S. Weick's Time
Sanctified). The hooking story cycles to the liturgical hours (Prime, Sext
etc.) is common in the illustration of books of hours. Thus the reference
might purely be to time of day for particular events, calculated in these
terms, rather than a mere 6 hours in Paradise.
Tom Izbicki
Tom Izbicki
At 07:25 PM 11/28/2001 -0600, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
>In Dante's Paradisio, he asks Adam about this very question. Adam
>replies that he was created at dawn and was expelled at the sixth hour
>(noon). My students are always amazed to discover how short a time it
>took Adam to sin! I can't give you an exact citation because I don't
>have the book here. And I don't believe there is any explanation in
>Dante beyond the bare statement. However, I'll take a look at footnotes
>in the morning to see if there is any attribution to the origins of this
>story.
>
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