Dante Soundings: Eight Literary and Historical EssaysDavid Nolan Irish Academic Press, 1981 - 192 pages |
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... Christian's moral journey through life . In this mode of allegory , the story of Isaac would be interpreted not just as a prefiguration of a real event , Christ's carrying of his cross , but as a " figure " in a more abstract , non ...
... Christian's moral journey through life . In this mode of allegory , the story of Isaac would be interpreted not just as a prefiguration of a real event , Christ's carrying of his cross , but as a " figure " in a more abstract , non ...
Page 175
... Christians , in Monarchia II the Roman Empire was emphatically a non - Christian empire . This conclusion , perhaps not so dramatic in itself , assumes however , a new importance when we see that his argument about the nature of the ...
... Christians , in Monarchia II the Roman Empire was emphatically a non - Christian empire . This conclusion , perhaps not so dramatic in itself , assumes however , a new importance when we see that his argument about the nature of the ...
Page 181
... Christian empire only . However , when Dante uses the phrase and the term " pietas ” , he consciously refers back to pre - Christian Rome and implicitly denies that there was a qualitative difference between the Roman and Christian ...
... Christian empire only . However , when Dante uses the phrase and the term " pietas ” , he consciously refers back to pre - Christian Rome and implicitly denies that there was a qualitative difference between the Roman and Christian ...
Contents
Foreword | 1 |
J C Barnes | 28 |
The Theme of Exodus in the First | 59 |
Copyright | |
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