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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "were really inspirational like rich people some people wanted to be franciscans but they could feel like they couldn't cut off their material ties..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "were really inspirational like rich people some people wanted to be franciscans but they could feel like they couldn't cut off their material ties..."
The student explanation Jiang endorses is that rich admirers, unable to renounce their own material ties, gave property to the Franciscans because they were inspired by them.
"were really inspirational like rich people some people wanted to be franciscans but they could feel like they couldn't cut off their material ties..."
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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