Sin in medieval and early modern culture: the tradition of the seven deadly sins

Contents

Introduction / Richard G. Newhauser -- Pt I. The sins in religious, intellectual and pastoral contexts -- Working for reform: acedia, Benedict of Aniane and the transformation of working culture in Carolingian monasticism / James B. Williams -- The cultural career of a 'minor' vice: arrogance in the medieval treatise on sin / Kiril Petkov -- Vices and virtues: a reassessment of Manuscript Stowe 34 / Cate Gunn -- Aquinas on the seven deadly sins: tradition and innovation / Eileen C. Sweeny -- A fifteenth-century sermon enacts the seven deadly sins / Holly Johnson -- The deadly sins and contemplative politics: Gerson's ordering of the personal and political realms / Nancy McLoughlin -- 'These seaven devils': the capital vices on the way to modernity / Richard G. Newhauser -- Pt. II. The sins in the musical, literary and visual arts -- The seven deadly sins in medieval music / Anne Walters Robertson -- The religion of the mountain: handling sin in Dante's Purgatorio / Peter S. Hawkins -- John Gower's shaping of 'The tale of Constance' as an exemplum contra envy / Carol Jamison -- Through Boschian eyes: an interpretation of the Prado tabletop of the seven deadly sins / Henry Luttikhuizen -- Singing sin: Michel Beheim's 'Little book of the seven deadly sins', a German pre-Reformation religious text for the laity / William C. McDonald -- Raising Cain: vice, virtue and social order in the German Reformation / Kathleen Crowther.