1. Holiness in Ignatius's Spiritual Exercises and Spenser's
... of fierce wars and faithful loves that allow Spenser's poem to become a legend of holiness. A legend of holiness requires a moral texture; it requires situations and events that engender moral judgments. Spenser's particular choice of fierce wars and faithful loves speaks to his understanding of the particular moralizing elements that he finds ... , because the Christian individual is obliged to believe what cannot be seen, this is a faithful love. In Book I, faithful loves inform the story's moral body in several ways. Interestingly, one of the most (if not the most) striking examples of...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate