Heather Webb is the Professor of Medieval Italian Literature and Culture at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Selwyn College. She received her PhD from Stanford University in 2004 and taught at The Ohio State University for eight years before coming to Cambridge. She is the author of two monographs, The Medieval Heart (2010), and Dante's Persons: An Ethics of the Transhuman (2016) and has co-edited five books, including Vertical Readings in Dante's 'Comedy' in three volumes, and the forthcoming Dante's 'Vita nova': A Collaborative Reading.

• Introduction


• 1: Reading Bodies in Motion


• 2: Dante as Visual Artist


• 3: Fixity and Flexibility


• 4: Modelling Gestural Virtues in Dante's Purgatorio


• 5: Asymmetrical Affections


• 6: Heavenly Proximities and Contagions


• Bibliography