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Middle ages medieval period
*AD 500-fall of roman period *the church: -religious and political -crusades 11th-13th cent *unity -latin TERM 2
Middle ages scale of values
DEFINITION 2 *great chain of being--determined by a persons level of communion with God *spiritual and material -pursuit of saintly life on earth *contemplative life -mystical communion with God -preparation for God *Active life -material pursuits - pleasure TERM 3
Literature in middle ages
DEFINITION 3 *everything is spiritual -man is a creature of God but world separates -civilization is ordained by God TERM 4
Early literature
DEFINITION 4 *dominant figure is fighting king *characteristic goals are power, wealth and glory TERM 5
Later literature
DEFINITION 5 *warrior plays smaller role *characters are more accessible *search for meaning and spiritual awareness--inferno
Dante
*florance, Italy *served on peoples council *1302 exiled TERM 7
Inferno
DEFINITION 7 *3 parts -inferno, purgatory, heaven *journey mofif *explores nature of things -whats wrong with self, and world _what is the divine plan TERM 8
Literary epic...but
DEFINITION 8 *comedy -language is common -written in italian dialect -not lofty style -poet=central character -subjective "I" -ends happily TERM 9
Numeric symbolism
DEFINITION 9 *each division -9 circles, 33 cantos--3x3=9 *total of 100 cantos TERM 10
Terza Rima
DEFINITION 10 *iambic pentameter *independent groupings of three line *connected by three repeated rhymes *symbolic of trinity
Canto III
*ante-hell *neither good nor evil *ambivalent angels *opportunists chase banner, bees *charon *dante swoons TERM 17
Circle 1:Limbo canto
IV
DEFINITION 17 *awakens in dolorous abyss *symbolic retribution *virtuous pagans-no pain, no hope TERM 18
Circle 2: carnal "lustfull" canto V
DEFINITION 18
- climbs to smaller circle *minos the judge *whirlwind *dante pities them *dido and sichaus *francesca and paolo *swoons again TERM 19
Circle 3: Gluttons canto VI
DEFINITION 19 *sinking storm of freezing putrefaction *cerberus *ciacco- hog, florentine TERM 20
Circle 4: hoarders and wasters canto VII
DEFINITION 20 *plutus -god of material wealth -speaks nonsense *mostly clergy *2 mobs pushing boulders--dead weights
Circle 5: wrathful and sullen canto VII-VIII
*dame fortune *march of styx-separates upper hell from dis and lower hell *great tower *phlegyas the boatman *filippo argenti TERM 22
Circle 6: the heretics cantos VIII-XI
DEFINITION 22 *city of dis *rebellious angels *gates of dis *infernal furies and medusa *messenger from heaven *tombs of heretics *epicureans and farinata *outline of the inferno TERM 23
Circle 7: the violent cantos XII-XVII
DEFINITION 23 *cliff and the minotaur *chiron, nessus and centaurs *violent against others in the boiling river of blood: phlegethon *violent against self: -wood of suicides TERM 24
Circle 7: the violent cont'
DEFINITION 24 *violence against god, nature and art *stone the plain of burning sands -a herd of naked souls *tears of ancient giant *stone margins TERM 25
Circle 8: malebolge or Evil ditches, fraudulent
and malicious
DEFINITION 25 *leopards fraud *malebolge-shaped like ampitheatre -with ten ditches -spanned by castle bridges *1st bolgia: adulterers and seducers -goaded by demons, jason *2nd bolgia: flatters in excrement *3rd: simoniacs *4th: fortune tellers -pity from dante
