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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2017]
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2017, Volume: 66, Issue: 4, Pages: 573-590 |
| IxTheo 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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| Summary: | 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 Dante engaged throughout his Commedia also funded his incisive ecclesial critique. This article discerns three trajectories of a Dantean prophetic vocation, which converge at key moments during the Commedia (particularly at Inferno XIX) to forge Dante, in all his rich complexity, into a prophet for his era. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0148333117697454 |