The Cross of Mars: Crusade Imagery and Theology in the Prologue to the Encounter with Cacciaguida (Par. xiv–xv).
Beginning with Innocent III's pontificate, participation in the crusades became increasingly interpreted as imitatio Christi patientis. Innocent III's crusade theology was revived by later pontiffs and became ingrained in the collective imagination through preaching. This article shows how Dante dra...
| Publicado en: | Italian Studies Vol. 79; no. 2; pp. 107 - 121 |
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