Medicine and the seven deadly sins in late medieval literature and culture / by Virginia Langum.
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Langum, Virginia, 1981- (författare)
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SpringerLink (Online service)
- ISBN 9781137449900
- Publicerad: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : 2016
- Engelska VIII, 236 p.
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Serie: The New Middle Ages
- Relaterad länk:
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http://dx.doi.org/10... (Table of Contents / Abstracts)
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- INTRODUCTION -- MEDICINE, SIN AND LANGUAGE -- PRIDE -- ENVY -- WRATH -- AVARICE -- SLOTH -- GLUTTONY -- LECHERY -- CONCLUSION .
- 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
Ämnesord
- Medeltidslitteratur (sao)
- Dödssynderna i litteraturen (sao)
- Religionshistoria (sao)
- Socialhistoria (sao)
- Literature (LCSH)
- Religion and sociology (LCSH)
- Social history (LCSH)
- Classical literature (LCSH)
- Literature, Medieval (LCSH)
- Religion -- History (LCSH)
- Europe -- History—476-1492 (LCSH)
- Literature
- Medieval Literature
- History of Medieval Europe
- Religion and Society
- Social History
- History of Religion
- Classical and Antique Literature
- Social history (LCSH)
- Religion - History (LCSH)
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- PN661-PN694 (LCC)
- LIT011000 (ämneskategori)
- 809.02 (DDC)
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