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Das literarische Bild des idealen Herrschers in den Gesta Inocentii III.
| Title in English | The literary image of an ideal ruler in Gesta Inocentii III. |
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| Year of publication | 2020 |
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| Description | Our paper presents the analysis of the first chapter of the pope Innocent III.’s biography known as Gesta Inocentii III. What virtues does the pope’s characteristics consist of? What is the semantic and literary origin of the words and phrases forming the catalogue of virtues present in the Gesta? These are the questions which we are going to discuss. Could the analysis of the first chapter contribute to the re-evaluation of the historiographical datation of the work which claims it to be written between 1203 and 1213? The anonymous author of the Gesta was pointing to the pope’s virtues also in the following chapters expanding on the virtues mentioned before. Our preliminary literary analysis was made by means of electronic databases and the methods of literary hermeneutics with the focus on the literary production of Innocent III. and his contemporaries. The results of the analysis have drawn our attention to the presence of the numerous literary allusions to the various writings of the 11th and 13th century. |
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