Medicine and the seven deadly sins in late medieval literature and culture
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Medicine and the seven deadly sins in late medieval literature and culture
（The new Middle Ages）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2016
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Bibliography: p. 201-225
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book considers how
scientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of the
human body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphor
for sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies physiologically dispose people to be
angry, sad, or greedy? If so, then is it their fault? Virginia Langum offers an
account of the medical imagery used to describe feelings and actions in
religious and literary contexts, referencing a variety of behavioral
discussions within medical contexts. The study draws upon medical and
theological writing for its philosophical basis, and upon more popular works of
religion, as well as poetry, to show how these themes were articulated,
explored, and questioned more widely in medieval culture.
Table of Contents
Table
of Contents
MEDICINE, SIN AND
LANGUAGE
Medicine as
Metaphor
Medicine as
Metonymy
Medicine as
Material
Metaphor as
Medicine
PRIDE
Metaphorical Pride
Metonymic Pride
Material Pride
ENVY
Metaphorical Envy
Metonymic Envy
Material Envy
WRATH
Metaphorical Wrath
Metonymic Wrath
Material Wrath
AVARICE
Metaphorical
Avarice
Metonymic Avarice
Material Avarice
SLOTH
Metaphorical Sloth
Metonymic Sloth
Material Sloth
GLUTTONY
Metaphorical
Gluttony
Metonymic Gluttony
Material Gluttony
LECHERY
Metaphorical
Lechery
Metonymic Lechery
Material Lechery
CONCLUSION
NOTES
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