O Inferno, de Dante Alighieri e a influência religiosa : da idade média ao mundo contemporânea

Abstract

In the present work, whose title is: “Inferno”, by Dante Alighieri and the religious influence from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world”, the objective was to study in more detail the literary representation of hell created by the author in this work, as well as analyze the conceptions of punishments and sins in the period of the Middle Ages, in order to verify the social, religious and political evolution of humanity until the contemporary moment, according to religious influence and what is understood by “sin” today. In the research we used as main authors: Jacques Le Goff, Jean-Claude Schmitt, Carmelo Distante, Barbara Reynolds, Zygmunt Bauman, etc.