The seven deadly sins : from communities to individuals
Richard Newhauser
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction: Cultural Construction and the Vices, Richard Newhauser I. COMMUNITIES 1. Sin Carolingian Kingship, Dwight D. Allman 2. Envy in Intellectual Discourse High Middle Ages, Bridget K. Balint 3. 'The Ooze Gluttony': Attitudes towards Food, Eating, Excess Susan E. Hill II. THE INSTITUTION OF CHURCH 4. Cassian, Nocturnal Emissions, Sexuality Jesus, John Kitchen 5. Pride Goes Before a Fall: Aldhelm's Practical Application Gregorian Cassianic Conceptions Superbia Eight Principal Rhonda L. McDaniel 6. Biblical Liars Thirteenth-Century Theologians, Dallas G. Denery II 7. Hard Bed Cross': Good Friday Preaching Seven Deadly Sins, Holly Johnson 8. Dressed to Sevens, or Style: Fashion Statements by Vices Spanish Baroque Autos Sacramentales, Hilaire Kallendorf III. INDIVIDUALS 9. 'Blessed are they that hunger after justice': From Vice Beatitude Dante's Purgatorio, V. S. Benfell III 10. Greed Anti-Fraternalism Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale', Derrick Pitard 11. Social Status Sin: Reading Bosch's Prado Sins Four Last Things Painting, Laura Gelfand 12. Freud as Virgil: The Anthropologies Psychoanalysis Commedia, Thomas Parisi Bibliography Indices
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