Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors

Introduction: Cultural Construction and the Vices, Richard Newhauser

I. COMMUNITIES
1. Sin and the Construction of Carolingian Kingship, Dwight D. Allman
2. Envy in the Intellectual Discourse of the High Middle Ages, Bridget K. Balint
3. ‘The Ooze of Gluttony’: Attitudes towards Food, Eating, and Excess in the Middle Ages, Susan E. Hill

II. THE INSTITUTION OF THE CHURCH
4. Cassian, Nocturnal Emissions, and the Sexuality of Jesus, John Kitchen
5. Pride Goes Before a Fall: Aldhelm’s Practical Application of Gregorian and Cassianic Conceptions of Superbia and the Eight Principal Vices, Rhonda L. McDaniel
6. Biblical Liars and Thirteenth-Century Theologians, Dallas G. Denery II
7. ‘The Hard Bed of the Cross’: Good Friday Preaching and the Seven Deadly Sins, Holly Johnson
8. Dressed to the Sevens, or Sin in Style: Fashion Statements by the Deadly Vices in Spanish Baroque Autos Sacramentales, Hilaire Kallendorf

III. INDIVIDUALS
9. ‘Blessed are they that hunger after justice’: From Vice to Beatitude in Dante’s Purgatorio, V. S. Benfell III
10. Greed and Anti-Fraternalism in Chaucer’s ‘Summoner’s Tale’, Derrick G. Pitard
11. Social Status and Sin: Reading Bosch’s Prado Seven Deadly Sins and Four Last Things Painting, Laura D. Gelfand
12. Freud as Virgil: The Anthropologies of Psychoanalysis and the Commedia, Thomas Parisi

Bibliography
Indices

About the Author

Richard Newhauser, Ph.D. (1986) University of Pennsylvania, is Professor of English and Medieval Studies at Trinity University, San Antonio. He has published extensively on the moral tradition in the Middle Ages, including In the Garden of Evil (Toronto, 2005).