Sins of the Fathers considers sins as nodes of cultural anxiety
and explores the tensions between competing organizational
categories for moral thought and behaviours, namely the Seven
Deadly Sins and the Ten Commandments. Hilaire Kallendorf explores
the decline and rise of these organizational categories against
critical transformations of the early modern period, such as the
accession of Spain to a position of world dominance and the arrival
of a new courtly culture to replace an old warrior ethos. This
ground-breaking study is the first to consider Spanish Golden Age
comedias as an archive of moral knowledge. Kallendorf has examined
over 800 of these plays to illustrate how they provide insight into
aspects of early modern experience such as food, sex, work, and
money. Finally, Kallendorf engages the theoretical terminology of
Marxist literary criticism to demonstrate the inherent ambiguity of
cultural change.
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