ENC1143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gluttony, Frame Story, Geoffrey Chaucer
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Rise of renaissance and three crises of the fourteenth century. Considered the father of renaissance and the father of italian literature for setting off the chain reaction and development of the renaissance movement. (as opposed to abelard, who arguably o(cid:374)l(cid:455) (cid:272)reated the (cid:862)splash a(cid:374)d ope(cid:374)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) to it. (cid:895) Important because it gives readers an idea of how christians in the middle ages saw the world and felt about the afterlife: dante used virgil as his guide in hell in his christian text. Strange because virgil was a pagan and a polytheist in short, not a christian. Therefore, his role i(cid:374) da(cid:374)te"s te(cid:454)t puts (cid:373)ore e(cid:373)phasis o(cid:374) virgil"s accomplishments in life rather than his religion. (very humanistic). Reflects people"s attitudes to(cid:449)ards virgil; he was revered for his work despite his religious views: re(cid:374)aissa(cid:374)(cid:272)e hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)is(cid:373): (cid:862)life o(cid:374) earth (cid:373)atters just as (cid:373)u(cid:272)h as life i(cid:374) the afterlife. (cid:863)
