Feb 6, 2023
Dr. David Allen White explains the nature and importance of stories in general, as images of the act of Creation, and explores in detail the greatest of the Chansons de Gestes, The Song of Roland, an epic Medieval poem glorifying the exploits of a knight in the service of Charlemagne fighting Moslems in Spain....
Feb 6, 2023
Dr. David Allen White explores the "other side of chivalry"; knights were obliged to fight loyally for God and for their lords, but were also obliged to perfect courtesy toward others, particularly women. The extensive requirements of the chivalric code, which governed the lives of Medieval knights, is detailed, and the...
Feb 6, 2023
Dr. David Allen White expounds on Dante's masterpiece, explaining how The Divine Comedy transforms the faulty notion of courtly love into the mystical union between the soul and God. In Part I, Dr. White discusses Dante's life and formation in the context of the political situation of the day, the nature of comedy as...
Feb 6, 2023
Dr. David Allen White richly analyzes Dante's Divine Comedy.In Part II, Dr. White richly analyzes the Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso in light of Catholic thought. Taken from: Christianity in the High Middle Ages - 1995 Von Hildebrand Institute