HIST 255 Study Guide - Scholasticism, Girolamo Savonarola, John Calvin
9 Apr 2013
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Canticle of the creatures francis of assisi, ca. Wanted to establish new rules for brothers in secular/lay world. Admired poverty, but obedient to the pope. Pope innocent iii found a way to adapt church to profit economy through francis: merchant wealth could be used for good (charity), merchants no longer automatically condemned to hell. Franciscans stayed in cities, allowed lay participation in religion: popularized religion and revolutionized christianity. In dante"s hell: upper hell and lower hell, canto 28: contrapasso punishment fits the crime, dante"s conversion from earthly to spiritual things, canto 5: story of paolo and francesca. Sexual sins, little importance, lust not considered excessively serious. Dolce stil nuovo italian style of love poetry. Dante writes love poetry until 1290 when beatrice. Convivio (1304-1308: dante"s philosophical poems, canto 26, ulysses, canto 34, brutus, cassius, judas, central theme was conversion from pride to humility.
