The seven deadly sins : from communities to individuals

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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Cultural Construction and the Vices, Richard Newhauser I. COMMUNITIES 1. Sin and the Construction of Carolingian Kingship, Dwight D. Allman 2. Envy in the Intellectual Discourse of the High Middle Ages, Bridget K. Balint 3. 'The Ooze of Gluttony': Attitudes towards Food, Eating, and Excess in the Middle Ages, Susan E. Hill II. THE INSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH 4. Cassian, Nocturnal Emissions, and the Sexuality of Jesus, John Kitchen 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 6. Biblical Liars and Thirteenth-Century Theologians, Dallas G. Denery II 7. 'The Hard Bed of the Cross': Good Friday Preaching and the Seven Deadly Sins, Holly Johnson 8. Dressed to the Sevens, or Sin in Style: Fashion Statements by the Deadly Vices in Spanish Baroque Autos Sacramentales, Hilaire Kallendorf III. INDIVIDUALS 9. 'Blessed are they that hunger after justice': From Vice to Beatitude in Dante's Purgatorio, V. S. Benfell III 10. Greed and Anti-Fraternalism in Chaucer's 'Summoner's Tale', Derrick G. Pitard 11. Social Status and Sin: Reading Bosch's Prado Seven Deadly Sins and Four Last Things Painting, Laura D. Gelfand 12. Freud as Virgil: The Anthropologies of Psychoanalysis and the Commedia, Thomas Parisi Bibliography Indices

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