Newhauser / Ridyard Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-78204-741-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 358 Seiten

A fresh consideration of the enduring tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, showing its continuing post-medieval influence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newhauser, Richard G.

Ridyard, Susan

Weitere Mitwirkende

Robertson, Anne Walters

Jamison, Carol

Gunn, Cate

Sweeney, Eileen C.

Luttikhuizen, Henry M.

Johnson, Holly

Williams, James B.

Crowther, Kathleen M.

Petkov, Kiril

McLoughlin, Nancy A.

Hawkins, Peter S.

Newhauser, Richard G.

McDonald, William C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Understanding Sin: Recent Scholarship and the Capital Vices - Richard G. Newhauser
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 in Sin - Kiril Petkov
Vices and Virtues: A Reassessment of Stowe MS 34 - Cate Gunn
Aquinas on the Seven Deadly Sins: Tradition and Innovation - Eileen C. Sweeney
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 A. McLoughlin
'These Seaven Devils': The Capital Vices on the Way to Modernity - Richard G. Newhauser
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 M. 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 in the German Reformation - Kathleen M. Crowther

Über Autor(innen)

Gunn Cate:
CATE GUNN is an independent scholar who has written on thirteenth-century anchoritic and pastoral literature.