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

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Buch | Hardcover
236 Seiten
2016 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-46558-0 (ISBN)

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Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture - Virginia Langum
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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.

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
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
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