Jews and Muslims in Dante’s Vision
Jesper Hede
Dante’s attitude towards Jews and Muslims in the Divine Comedy has been a controversial issue literary studies of medieval period. This article outlines most central questions this regard argues that treatment often misleading due to exaggeration overstatement. Dante seen, respectively, as summarizer culture mentalities, intellectual who was more open for non-Christian influences than his fellow Christians, highly prejudiced conservative. In considering constituents worldview, follows should rather be seen Christian whose cultural horizon limited, political theory world government narrowly focused on specific problem within European Christendom, vision redemption, although complex original various respects, could not but embrace all human beings either righteous or corrupted Christians.
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