Finis corporis initium animae. La qualità morale del nemico nella rappresentazione del corpo tra epica crociata e odeporica di pellegrinaggio (2012)
Sabbatini, Ilaria (Author)
Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Volume: 20
Pages: 257--292
Publication date: 2012
Language: Italian
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Estremità e escrescenze dei corpi / Extremities and Excrescences of the Body”
Pilgrimage diaries represent an important tradition where narrative and memory entwine, with a positive function for historical reconstruction that has been demonstrated beyond doubt. Building on these assumptions, it went on to investigate the formation of the idea of the enemy in the patristic literature, in relation to the transition from Muhammad's heresy to that of Muslim paganism. Referring to a corpus of Tuscan-Florentine texts, it is possible to identify an original approach that ignores the theological consideration of the enemy and describes otherness.
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