Chapter 7: Duels and the Moors.

A literary criticism of the book "Don Quijote," by Miguel de Cervantes is presented. During Cervante's age, theologians would believe that duels would endanger public morality as well as Christianity. Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, a theologian, commented that Christians should behave as Moors do in regar...

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Publicado en:Miracles, Duels & Cide Hamete's Moorish Dissent pp. 26 - 31
Formato: Literary Criticism
Publicado: Digitalia Publishing Corp. 1993
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Sumario:A literary criticism of the book "Don Quijote," by Miguel de Cervantes is presented. During Cervante's age, theologians would believe that duels would endanger public morality as well as Christianity. Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, a theologian, commented that Christians should behave as Moors do in regard to the practice of duel. The author contends that in the Medieval and Renaissance epic literature both Christian and Moorish knights had battled against each other.