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In the garden of evil : the vices and culture in the Middle Ages / edited by Richard Newhauser.

Title
In the garden of evil : the vices and culture in the Middle Ages / edited by Richard Newhauser.
Publication
Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, ©2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Newhauser, Richard, 1947-
  • Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Description
xxiii, 568 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
Papers in mediaeval studies ; 18
Uniform Title
Papers in mediaeval studies 18.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-538) and indexes.
Language (note)
  • Includes some text in Latin and Middle English.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • 1. Evagrius Ponticus and the "eight generic Logismoi" / Columba Stewart -- 2. Gregory, Cassian, and the cardinal vices / Carole Straw -- 3. Vir inconstans : moral theology as palaeopsychology / Edward Peters -- 4. "The darkness and the obscurity of sins" : representing vice in the thirteenth-century Bibles moralisees / Gerald B. Guest -- 5. The seven deadly sins between pastoral care and scholastic theology : the Summa de vitiis by John of Rupella / Silvana Vecchio -- 6. "Motions of the heart" and sins : the Specchio de' pecatti by Domenico Cavalca, OP / Carla Casagrande -- 7. Preaching the seven deadly sins / Siegfried Wenzel -- 8. "It is a freletee of flessh" : excuses for sin, pastoral rhetoric, and moral agency / Edwin D. Craun -- 9. The lechery that dare not speak its name : sodomy and the vices in medieval England / Ruth Mazo Karras -- 10. Sin and the vices in the Middle English mystics / Michael Kuczynski -- 11. Visuality and moral culture in the late Middle Ages : the emblematic Conflictus and its literary representatives, the Etymachia, Qui vicerit dabo, and In campo mundi / Nigel Harris and Richard Newhauser -- 12. Catalogues of demons as catalogues of vices in medieval German literature : Des Teufels Netz and the Alexander Romance by Ulrich von Etzenbach / Meinolf Schumacher -- 13. "Initium omnis peccati est superbia" : Jean Gerson's analysis of pride in his mystical theology, pastoral thought, and hamartiology / M.W.F. Stone -- 14. Avaritia and Paupertas : on the place of the early Franciscans in the history of avarice / Richard Newhauser -- 15. On the track of lust : Luxuria, Ockham, and the scientists / Bonnie Kent -- 16. Gendering anger : Ira, Furor, and discourses of power and masculinity in the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Richard E. Barton -- 17. Between sin and pleasure : drunkenness in France at the end of the Middle Ages / Mireille Vincent-Cassy.
  • 18. The art of denunciation : medieval moralists on envy and detraction / F.N.M. Diekstra -- 19. Acedia and burn-out syndrome : from an occupational vice of the early monks to a psychological concept in secularized professional life / Rainer E. Jehl.
ISBN
  • 9780888448187
  • 088844818X
LCCN
^^2005432427
OCLC
  • 60602259
  • SCSB-11452141
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