Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture
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2016
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1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-46558-0 (ISBN)
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-46558-0 (ISBN)
Virginia Langum offers anaccount of the medical imagery used to describe feelings and actions inreligious and literary contexts, referencing a variety of behavioraldiscussions within medical contexts.
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.
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.
Virginia Langum is Associate Professor of English at Umeå 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.
INTRODUCTION.- MEDICINE, SIN AND LANGUAGE.- PRIDE.- ENVY.- WRATH.- AVARICE.- SLOTH.- GLUTTONY.- LECHERY.- CONCLUSION
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.10.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | The New Middle Ages |
| Zusatzinfo | VIII, 236 p. |
| Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-137-46558-1 / 1137465581 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-46558-0 / 9781137465580 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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