Preliminaries; Contents; List of abbreviations; Preface; 1 Alms and ascetes, round stones and masons: avarice in the early church; 2 Ascetic transformations I: monks and the laity in eastern Christendom; 3 Ascetic transformations II: soaring eagles or safety in the herd -- from anchoritic to cenobitic monasticism; 4 Ascetic transformations III: The Latin West in the fourth and fifth centuries; 5 Secularizing avarice and cupidity; Epilogue: Future perspectives; Appendix: Imagery surrounding avarice; Notes; Bibliography; General index; Index of names; Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
Summary
In this first full study of the early history of greed Richard Newhauser shows that avaritia, the sin of greed for possessions, was increasingly dominant in a wide range of theological and literary texts from the first century CE to the end of the tenth century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and indexes
