Book III
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Book III of *The Faerie Queene* is the section of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem that chiefly explores the virtue of chastity through the adventures of the knight Britomart.
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| Book III canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: Book III Context triple: [The Faerie Queene, hasBook, Book III]
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Book III is one of the sections of Nicolaus Copernicus’s seminal astronomical work *De revolutionibus orbium coelestium*, which laid the foundations of the heliocentric model of the solar system.
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Book III is the third section of Augustine’s theological treatise *On Christian Doctrine*, focusing on the principles for interpreting ambiguous or figurative passages of Scripture.
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Book III is the third book of Herodotus’ *Histories*, continuing his pioneering narrative of the Greco-Persian world through a blend of historical inquiry, ethnography, and storytelling.
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Book III is the section of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s political treatise *The Social Contract* that focuses on the nature, forms, and functioning of government in relation to the sovereign people.
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Book III is the section of John Locke’s "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding" that focuses on the nature, use, and limitations of language in human knowledge.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Book III Target entity description: Book III of *The Faerie Queene* is the section of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem that chiefly explores the virtue of chastity through the adventures of the knight Britomart.
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Book III is one of the sections of John Gower’s Middle English poem *Vox Clamantis*, contributing to its broader moral and political commentary on 14th-century English society.
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Book III of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is the section in which he analyzes moral responsibility, voluntary and involuntary action, and the nature of courage and temperance as key virtues.
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Book III is the third section of Herman Melville’s long religious-epic poem *Clarel*, continuing its exploration of faith, doubt, and spiritual crisis during a pilgrimage in the Holy Land.
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Book III is the third section of Augustine’s theological treatise *On Christian Doctrine*, focusing on the principles for interpreting ambiguous or figurative passages of Scripture.
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Book III is a section of Lactantius’s early Christian apologetic work *Divine Institutes*, continuing his systematic defense and explanation of Christian doctrine to a Roman audience.
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Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book of a poem
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part of an epic poem ⓘ |
| associatedMonarch | Elizabeth I NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Edmund Spenser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfPublication | 16th century ⓘ |
| containsCantoStructure | yes ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| depicts | adventures of the knight Britomart ⓘ |
| exploresTheme |
gender and virtue
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heroic female agency ⓘ love and chastity ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter | Britomart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOnVirtue | chastity ⓘ |
| genre |
Renaissance epic
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allegory ⓘ |
| hasMainProtagonist | Britomart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Ariosto
NERFINISHED
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Italian Renaissance epics ⓘ Tasso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| intendedMoralPurpose | didactic exploration of chastity ⓘ |
| language | Early Modern English ⓘ |
| literaryForm | allegorical epic poetry ⓘ |
| literaryInfluenceOn | later English allegorical poetry ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Elizabethan literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | English Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| meter | Spenserian stanza ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | exemplification of chastity through quest narrative ⓘ |
| narrativeMode | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor | central female knight protagonist ⓘ |
| numberOfBooksInWork | 6 ⓘ |
| originallyPublishedTogetherWith |
Book I (The Faerie Queene)
NERFINISHED
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Book II (The Faerie Queene) NERFINISHED ⓘ Book IV (The Faerie Queene) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originalPublication | 1590 ⓘ |
| partOf | The Faerie Queene NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionInWork | third book ⓘ |
| primaryTheme | chastity ⓘ |
| setIn | Faerie Land NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| symbolicFunctionOfBritomart | personification of chastity ⓘ |
| targetVirtueInSpenserPlan | chastity ⓘ |
| workType | allegorical romance ⓘ |
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Subject: Book III Description of subject: Book III of *The Faerie Queene* is the section of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem that chiefly explores the virtue of chastity through the adventures of the knight Britomart.
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