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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "Okay, so, we will never know what Dante thought of the Cathars, okay? Um, he knows what happened, but he probably believes that they..."
Asked about Dante's view of the Cathars, Jiang says Dante probably accepted the official view that they were heretical, but that the poem's deeper concerns were fraternal violence and Church corruption.
"Okay, so, we will never know what Dante thought of the Cathars, okay? Um, he knows what happened, but he probably believes that they..."
The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
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