The seven deadly sins : from communities to individuals / edited by Richard Newhauser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Newhauser, Richard, 1947-

Series:

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions 1573-4188 ; v. 123.

Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, 1573-4188 ; v. 123

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deadly sins.

Christian ethics--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Christian ethics.

History.

Civilization, Medieval.

Physical Description:

xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Summary:

This volume presents a selection of essays undertaken by participants in an NEH Summer Seminar in 2004 on the topic of the seven deadly sins, viewed individually and as a whole, as part of the Begriffsgeschichte of the Middle Ages and beyond in which concepts are constructed within the cultural milieus in which they function. The essays in the first part study the political and social ethics of medieval communities. In the second part, the institutional imperatives within the Church of formulating and teaching about the capital vices are the focus of research. In the final section, the contributions deal with ways in which secular artists and authors (in particular, Dante) contribute to the cultural construction of the vices.

Contents:

Introduction: Cultural Construction and the Vices / Richard Newhauser 1

I Communities

1 Sin and the Construction of Carolingian Kingship / Dwight D. Allman 21

2 Envy in the Intellectual Discourse of the High Middle Ages / Bridget K. Balint 41

3 "The Ooze of Gluttony": Attitudes towards Food, Eating, and Excess in the Middle Ages / Susan E. Hill 57

II The Institution of the Church

4 Cassian, Nocturnal Emissions, and the Sexuality of Jesus / John Kitchen 73

5 Pride Goes Before a Fall: Aldhelm's Practical Application of Gregorian and Cassianic Conceptions of Superbia and the Eight Principal Vices / Rhonda L. McDaniel 95

6 Biblical Liars and Thirteenth-Century Theologians / Dallas G. Denery II 111

7 "The Hard Bed of the Cross": Good Friday Preaching and the Seven Deadly Sins / Holly Johnson 129

8 Dressed to the Sevens, or Sin in Style: Fashion Statements by the Deadly Vices in Spanish Baroque Autos Sacramentales / Hilaire Kallendorf 145

III Individuals

9 "Blessed are they that hunger after justice": From Vice to Beatitude in Dante's Purgatorio / V. S. Benfell III 185

10 Greed and Anti-Fraternalism in Chaucer's "Summoner's Tale" / Derrick G. Pitard 207

11 Social Status and Sin: Reading Bosch's Prado Seven Deadly Sins and Four Last Things Painting / Laura D. Gelfand 229

12 Freud as Virgil: The Anthropologies of Psychoanalysis and the Commedia / Thomas Parisi 257

Secondary Texts 280.

Notes:

"The present volume represents a selection of the research stimulated by [the editor's] summer seminar on 'The Seven Deadly Sins as Cultural Constructions in the Middle Ages,' which was held at Darwin College, Cambridge University, July 12-August 13, 2004"--P. [1].

Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-293) and indexes.

ISBN:

9004157859

9789004157859

OCLC:

86079469