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Middle English Literature, Fall 1999

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church poverty//11/1/99

From: LewiarzP1@alpha.montclair.edu
Date: 11/1/99
Time: 2:51:23 PM
Remote Name: 130.68.51.141

Comments

The issue of ecclesiastical poverty concerning the issue of the church

is a very important one when taken from a broad context. The church plays a

very important role in Eco's book and the underlying precept's of this are

clearly understood from a very broad perspective. I think that understanding

Eco's interpretation of this incident is very important to the whole overall

principle involved in the making of the theme that church poverty revolves

around.

Eco represents the role of church poverty in a way which sweeps over

the whole scope of the story. The issue of church poverty sweeps over the

grasp of the story which leads to further criticism about the understanding of

how the later developments will unfold. I think that Eco feels that the whole

issue of the church being poor is a farce because the church lends so much to

the development of the whole story. I can relate to the representation as so

far as it goes in regards to the fraud of the church and the greedy nature

involved in the papal regions.


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