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MILLENNIAL REPRESENTATIONS OF MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS SCHISM IN WESTERN MEDIA: An Iconographic Analysis of Dante’s Inferno 28 and the Twenty-First Century Films Dracula Untold and Kingdom of Heaven
(SGEM World Science, 2021, N. Shajani)
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Dante Alighieri’s Inferno 28 is the place of the sowers of discord and scandal who are responsible for causing a split within their own communities; among them in the ninth bolge of the eighth circle is Muhammad whose mutilated body represents the division he brought to Christianity. A historical contextualization of the Inferno, however, confirms that the hostility between Christianity and Islam had emerged earlier with the rise of Islam as a political power in the seventh century. This paper examines Medieval ...
ART & HUMANITIES: Section Medieval & Renaissance Studies2021