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Latin, priestly authorization, and hierarchical bureaucracy are treated as mechanisms that tell ordinary people theology is not for them.
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Latin, priestly authorization, and hierarchical bureaucracy are treated as mechanisms that tell ordinary people theology is not for them.
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He distinguishes The Commedia from the later title The Divine Comedy and says Dante's choice of comic-low vernacular Tuscan over high Latin turns Tuscan into the Italian peninsula's official literary language.
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"...need to know is, the official language of the Church was Latin. During Church services, the priest would give sermons in Latin. The Bible..."
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"...it. At this point in European history, the high language is Latin. And what Dante does, which is very interesting, is, he, he chooses..."
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"And this is the, of course, the local language of Florence, where he is from. And because The Commedia is so wonderfully produced, Tuscan..."
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"...Dante never read Homer. He read Virgil, because Dante can read Latin."
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"...can you read, Ivory? You can skip this part, this is Latin."
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"...was considered high or tragic. And it was written usually in Latin. But for Dante, what he really believed is that epic poetry should..."
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"...was considered high or tragic. And it was written usually in Latin. But for Dante, what he really believed is that epic poetry should..."
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"...So what happened is that Aeneas lands in Italy and the Latin tribes see Aeneas as this great hero. And the king there, Latinus,..."
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"...are moving to europe and people from um south america and latin america are moving to the united states okay and we should expect..."
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"...continent of America, but really as the entire North American and Latin American. Okay? That entire sphere is basically America. So it has unlimited..."
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"...the Iliad and this is the main way that you learn Latin the official language of the Roman Empire and so whereas Homer will..."
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"...with a framework and then virgil um uh composed it into latin poetry and actually at the end of his life virgil actually want..."
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