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

Virginia Langum (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2016 | 2016 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-69086-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Virginia Langum is Associate Professor of English at Umea 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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.7.2016
Reihe/Serie	The New Middle Ages
Zusatzinfo	biography
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-349-69086-4 / 1349690864
ISBN-13	978-1-349-69086-2 / 9781349690862
Zustand	Neuware