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Title Sin in Medieval and early modern culture : the tradition of the seven deadly sins / edited by Richard G. Newhauser and Susan J. Ridyard
Published [Place of publication not identified] : Boydell and Brewer, 2012

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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
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Subject Deadly sins.
Sin, Mortal.
Deadly sins in art.
Deadly sins in literature.
Christian ethics -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Christian ethics -- History -- Early modern, 1500-1700
RELIGION / Christian Church / History
Christian ethics -- Middle Ages
Deadly sins
Deadly sins in art
Deadly sins in literature
Sin, Mortal
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Newhauser, Richard G
Ridyard, Susan J
ISBN 9781782047414
1782047417