The Seven Deadly Sins (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)

Contents
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List of Illustrations......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
Introduction: Cultural Construction and the Vices (Richard Newhauser)......Page 14
COMMUNITIES......Page 32
1. Sin and the Construction of Carolingian Kingship (Dwight D. Allman)......Page 34
2. Envy in the Intellectual Discourse of the High Middle Ages (Bridget K. Balint)......Page 54
3. "The Ooze of Gluttony": Attitudes towards Food, Eating, and Excess in the Middle Ages (Susan E. Hill)......Page 70
4. Cassian, Nocturnal Emissions, and the Sexuality of Jesus (John Kitchen)......Page 86
THE INSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH......Page 84
5. Pride Goes Before a Fall: Aldhelm's Practical Application of Gregorian and Cassianic Conceptions of Superbia and the Eight Principal Vices (Rhonda L. McDaniel)......Page 108
6. Biblical Liars and Thirteenth-Century Theologians (Dallas G. Denery)......Page 124
7. "The Hard Bed of the Cross": Good Friday Preaching and the Seven Deadly Sins (Holly Johnson)......Page 142
8. Dressed to the Sevens, or Sin in Style: Fashion Statements by the Deadly Vices in Spanish Baroque Autos Sacramentales (Hilaire Kallendorf)......Page 158
INDIVIDUALS......Page 196
9. "Blessed are they that hunger after justice": From Vice to Beatitude in Dante's Purgatorio (V. S. Benfell)......Page 198
10. Greed and Anti-Fraternalism in Chaucer's "Summoner's Tale" (Derrick G. Pitard)......Page 220
11. Social Status and Sin: Reading Bosch's Prado Seven Deadly Sins and Four Last Things Painting (Laura D. Gelfand)......Page 242
12. Freud as Virgil: The Anthropologies of Psychoanalysis and the Commedia (Thomas Parisi)......Page 270
Primary Sources......Page 288
Secondary Texts......Page 293
Index of Names......Page 308
Index of Subjects......Page 314