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Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture - The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins (Hardcover)
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Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture - The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins (Hardcover)
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A fresh consideration of the enduring tradition of the Seven Deadly
Sins, showing its continuing post-medieval influence. The tradition
of the seven deadly sins played a considerable role in western
culture, even after the supposed turning-point of the Protestant
Reformation, as the essays collected here demonstrate. The first
part of the book addresses such topics as the problem of acedia in
Carolingian monasticism; the development of medieval thought on
arrogance; the blending of tradition and innovation in Aquinas's
conceptualization of the sins; the treatment of sin in the pastoral
contexts of the early Middle English Vices and Virtues and a
fifteenth-century sermon from England; the political uses of the
deadly sins in the court sermons of Jean Gerson; and the continuing
usefulnessof the tradition in early modern England. In the second
part, the role of the tradition in literature and the arts is
considered. Essays look at representations of the sins in French
music of the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries; in Dante's
Purgatorio; in a work by Michel Beheim in pre-Reformation Germany;
and in a 1533 play by the German Lutheran writer Hans Sachs. New
interpretations are offered of Gower's "Tale of Constance" and
Bosch's Tabletop of the Seven Deadly Sins. As a whole, the book
significantly enhances our understanding of the multiple uses and
meanings of the sins tradition, not only in medieval culture but
also in the transition from the medievalto the early modern period.
RICHARD G. NEWHAUSER is Professor of English and Medieval Studies,
Arizona State University, Tempe; SUSAN J. RIDYARD is Professor of
History and Director of the Sewanee Medieval Colloquium,The
University of the South, Sewanee. Contributors: Richard G.
Newhauser, James B. Williams, Kiril Petkov, Cate Gunn, Eileen C.
Sweeney, Holly Johnson, Nancy McLoughlin, Anne Walters Robertson,
Peter S. Hawkins, CarolJamison, Henry Luttikhuizen, William C.
McDonald, Kathleen Crowther.
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