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The early history of greed : the sin of avarice in early medieval thought and literature / Richard Newhauser.
LIBRA BJ1535.A8 N48 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newhauser, Richard, 1947-
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Avarice--History.
- Avarice.
- Christian ethics--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Christian ethics.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 246 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- The first full-length study of the early history of greed, through texts from the first to tenth centuries CE.
- Contents:
- 1 Alms and ascetes, round stones and masons: avarice in the early church 1
- 2 Ascetic transformations I: monks and the laity in eastern Christendom 22
- 3 Ascetic transformations II: soaring eagles or safety in the herd - from anchoritic to cenobitic monasticism 47
- 4 Ascetic transformations III: the Latin West in the fourth and fifth centuries 70
- 5 Secularizing avarice and cupidity 96
- Epilogue: Future perspectives 125.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0521385229
- OCLC:
- 41049702
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