Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture (häftad)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
236
Utgivningsdatum
2016-09-16
Upplaga
1st ed. 2016
Förlag
Palgrave Macmillan
Illustratör/Fotograf
Bibliographie
Illustrationer
VIII, 236 p.
Dimensioner
217 x 155 x 18 mm
Vikt
430 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
1 Hardback
ISBN
9781137465580

Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture

av Virginia Langum
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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.
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Virginia Langum is Associate Professor of English at Ume University, Sweden and Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. She recently edited Words and Matter: The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern Parish Life.

Innehållsförteckning

INTRODUCTION.- MEDICINE, SIN AND LANGUAGE.- PRIDE.- ENVY.- WRATH.- AVARICE.- SLOTH.- GLUTTONY.- LECHERY.- CONCLUSION

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