The Early History of Greed
Subtitle: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 29, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780521385220
Subjects: Christian moral & pastoral theology; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; Medieval Church (476-1517); Religion And Art; Religion - Christian Life; Europe; Christian Life - General; Christian Theology - Ethics; European - General; Avarice--History; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Literary Criticism-European - General; Religion / Christian Life; Religion-Christianity - Theology - Ethics; Christianity - Christian Life - General; Avarice; Christian ethics; History; Middle Ages, 600-1500
First sentence: The third vision in the Shepherd of Hermas, written in Rome for the young Christian community there during the early part of the second century, is an allegory of the ideal construction of the church, and it may serve as a guide in examining the responses to greed in early Christian literature.