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  • Event Start Date: November 4, 2026
  • Event Start Time: 1:00 PM
  • Event End Time: 2:30 PM
  • Event Location: ABW-5050 - Rutgers Academic Building, West Wing, 15 Seminary Place
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    Lunch provided.

    The Pope, Usury, Lady Poverty, and the Donation of Constantine: Franciscan Ideas in Dante.

    What was Dante’s relation to money? Why did he view wealth as the source of church corruption? Was he a Franciscan? At the root of all these questions is a document known as the Donation of Constantine. Radical Franciscan thinkers offer an answer to some of these complex historical and theological issues with a proposed return to the church’s purer past. The quest for poverty, reconciliation, and love govern the poet’s intense interaction with Franciscanism.

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