Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and - The New Middle Ages

Informationen zum Autor 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.   Klappentext This book considers howscientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of thehuman body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphorfor sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies physiologically dispose people to beangry, sad, or greedy? If so, then is it their fault? 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. The study draws upon medical andtheological writing for its philosophical basis, and upon more popular works ofreligion, as well as poetry, to show how these themes were articulated,explored, and questioned more widely in medieval culture. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION.- MEDICINE, SIN AND LANGUAGE.-  PRIDE.- ENVY.- WRATH.- AVARICE.- SLOTH.-  GLUTTONY.-  LECHERY.- CONCLUSION

Product details

• Authors: Virginia Langum
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2016
• EAN: 9781137465580
• ISBN: 978-1-137-46558-0
• No. of pages: 244
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 217 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Perspektiven der Mathematikdidaktik; The New Middle Ages; Springer Palgrave Macmillan; The New Middle Ages
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Soziologie, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, B, Geschichte der Religion, Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften, Sociology of Religion, Social History, Europäische Geschichte: Mittelalter, Social & cultural history, History of Religion, Religious issues & debates, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Religion—History, Religion and sociology, Literary studies: ancient, classical & medieval, Classical literature, Classical and Antique Literature, Religion and Society, Medieval Literature, Literature, Medieval, History of Medieval Europe, Europe—History—476-1492, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval