Title: In the garden of evil : the vices and culture in the Middle Ages /
Authors: Newhauser, Richard, 1947-; Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Deadly sins.; Theology History; Civilization, Medieval.; Péchés capitaux.; Théologie Histoire; Civilisation médiévale.; Civilization, Medieval; Deadly sins; Theology Middle Ages; Doodzonden.; Cultuur.; Kultur; Laster.; Sieben Todsünden (Motiv); Todsünde; Geschichte.; Laster.; Theologie.; Todsünde.; Laster.; Kultur.; Todsünde.
Contents: 1. Evagrius Ponticus and the "eight generic Logismoi" / Columba Stewart -- 2. Gregory, Cassian, and the cardinal vices / Carole Straw -- 3. Vir inconstans : moral theology as palaeopsychology / Edward Peters -- 4. "The darkness and the obscurity of sins" : representing vice in the thirteenth-century Bibles moralisees / Gerald B. Guest -- 5. The seven deadly sins between pastoral care and scholastic theology : the Summa de vitiis by John of Rupella / Silvana Vecchio -- 6. "Motions of the heart" and sins : the Specchio de' pecatti by Domenico Cavalca, OP / Carla Casagrande -- 7. Preaching the seven deadly sins / Siegfried Wenzel -- 8. "It is a freletee of flessh" : excuses for sin, pastoral rhetoric, and moral agency / Edwin D. Craun -- 9. The lechery that dare not speak its name : sodomy and the vices in medieval England / Ruth Mazo Karras -- 10. Sin and the vices in the Middle English mystics / Michael Kuczynski -- 11. Visuality and moral culture in the late Middle Ages : the emblematic Conflictus and its literary representatives, the Etymachia, Qui vicerit dabo, and In campo mundi / Nigel Harris and Richard Newhauser -- 12. Catalogues of demons as catalogues of vices in medieval German literature : Des Teufels Netz and the Alexander Romance by Ulrich von Etzenbach / Meinolf Schumacher -- 13. "Initium omnis peccati est superbia" : Jean Gerson's analysis of pride in his mystical theology, pastoral thought, and hamartiology / M.W.F. Stone -- 14. Avaritia and Paupertas : on the place of the early Franciscans in the history of avarice / Richard Newhauser -- 15. On the track of lust : Luxuria, Ockham, and the scientists / Bonnie Kent -- 16. Gendering anger : Ira, Furor, and discourses of power and masculinity in the eleventh and twelfth centuries / Richard E. Barton -- 17. Between sin and pleasure : drunkenness in France at the end of the Middle Ages / Mireille Vincent-Cassy.