Can Dante’s Inferno be seen as a criticism of medieval life?

 

Can Dante’s Inferno be seen as a criticism of medieval life?

Throughout the Middle Ages, politics was dominated by the struggle between the two greatest powers of that age: the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire. Each claimed to be of divine origin and to be indispensable to the welfare of mankind. The cause of this struggle was the papal claim that it also had authority over temporal matters, that is, the ruling of the government and other secular matters. In contrast, the Holy Roman Empire maintained that the papacy had claim only to religious matters, not to temporal matters. This conflict between papacy and empire is the very theme of Dante’s Inferno and this conflict is also a subject of criticism in a larger part of the book.

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