A Poet’s Prophetic Vocation: The Historical, Dramatic, and Literary Trajectories of Dante Alighieri’s Ecclesial Criticism

In his political writings, correspondence, and epic poetry, Dante Alighieri often assumed a prophetic posture. His self-understood vocation found primary expression in his direct, forceful criticism of the medieval Catholic Church, although the post hoc predictions and scriptural mimesis in which Da...

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Main Author: Beckett, Joshua (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Johns Hopkins University Press [2017]
In: Christianity & literature
Year: 2017, Volume: 66, Issue: 4, Pages: 573-590
RelBib Classification:CD Christianity and Culture
TG High Middle Ages
Further subjects:B Medieval Literature
B Social Criticism
B Divine Comedy
B Dante Alighieri
B DIVINE Comedy, The (Poem : Dante)
B prophetic social criticism
B Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
B Catholic Church
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