Sin in medieval and early modern culture : the tradition of the seven deadly sins / Edited by Richard G. Newhauser and Susan J. Ridyard.
| Other author | Newhauser, Richard, 1947- editor. |
| Other author | Ridyard, Susan J. (Susan Janet), 1957- editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : York Medieval Press, 2012. |
| Description | xv, 338 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Richard G. Newhauser -- Pt I. The sins in religious, intellectual and pastoral contexts -- Working for reform: acedia, Benedict of Aniane and the transformation of working culture in Carolingian monasticism / James B. Williams -- The cultural career of a 'minor' vice: arrogance in the medieval treatise on sin / Kiril Petkov -- Vices and virtues: a reassessment of Manuscript Stowe 34 / Cate Gunn -- Aquinas on the seven deadly sins: tradition and innovation / Eileen C. Sweeny -- A fifteenth-century sermon enacts the seven deadly sins / Holly Johnson -- The deadly sins and contemplative politics: Gerson's ordering of the personal and political realms / Nancy McLoughlin -- 'These seaven devils': the capital vices on the way to modernity / Richard G. Newhauser -- Pt. II. The sins in the musical, literary and visual arts -- The seven deadly sins in medieval music / Anne Walters Robertson -- The religion of the mountain: handling sin in Dante's Purgatorio / Peter S. Hawkins -- John Gower's shaping of 'The tale of Constance' as an exemplum contra envy / Carol Jamison -- Through Boschian eyes: an interpretation of the Prado Tabletop of the seven deadly sins / Henry Luttikhuizen -- Singing sin: Michel Beheim's 'Little book of the seven deadly sins', a German pre-reformation religious text for the laity / William C. McDonald -- Raising Cain: vice, virtue and social order / Kathleen Crowther. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781903153413 |
| ISBN | 1903153417 |