Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages (Variorum Collected Studies Series)

Richard Newhauser examines here aspects of the moral tradition of medieval thought, specifically the construction of the seven deadly sins, their offspring, and related schematizations of immorality in the Latin West. The emphasis in these studies is on the malleability of moral categories, their relationship to changes in medieval culture, and the creativity and sensitivity of the thinkers who made use of the concepts of sinfulness in the Middle Ages. The first section examines the contexts in which the seven deadly sins (or nine accessory sins) are found in medieval Latin, English, and German texts, and in particular the genre of the treatise on vices and virtues as the major vehicle in which concepts of immorality were examined and presented to a variety of audiences for meditative or pastoral purposes. The second section deals with one of the more interesting of the seven deadly sins, avarice, in its penitential, literary, apocalyptic, and institutional contexts, as its definition changed slowly with developing commercial experiences in medieval Europe. In the last section the breadth of the concept of a sinful curiosity is examined, and its historical development is delineated in the thought of Augustine of Hippo and the early Cistercians. Cover Series Half Title Title Copyright Contents Introduction Acknowledgements Part 1: Contexts I On ambiguity in moral theology: when the vices masquerade as virtues Revised and expanded version of “Zur Zweideutigkeit in der Moraltheologie. Als Tugenden verkleidete Laster. " in Der Fehltritt. Vergehen und Versehen in der Vormoderne, ed. Peter von Moos. Norm und Struktur 15. Cologne: Böhlau Verlag. 2001. pp. 377-402 II The treatise on vices and virtues as a medieval genre and its structural foundations in the Classical tradition Les philosophies morales et politiques au Moyen Âge: Moral and Political Philosophies in the Middle Ages, ed. B. Carlos Bazán et al. Ottawa: Publications du Laboratoire de la pensée ancienne et médiévale. Legos, 1995 III Alle sunde hant vnterschidunge: der Tugend- und Lastertraktat als literarische Gattung im Mittelalter Festschrift Walter Haug und Burghart Wachinger, ed. J. Janota et al. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1992 IV The Parson’s Tale and its generic affiliations Closure in The Canterbury Tales: The Role of The Parson's Tale, Studies in Medieval Culture 41, eds D. Raybin and L. T. Holley, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Pulications, 2000 V From treatise to sermon: Johannes Herolt on the novem peccata aliena De Ore Domini: Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages, Studies in Medieval Culture 27, ed. T.L. Amos et al. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1989 VI A la redécouverte de Willem Jordaens Revue d’Histoire Ecclésiastique 84,2. Louvain, 1989 Part 2: Avarice VII The love of money as deadly sin and deadly disease Zusammenhänge, Einflüsse, Wirkungen. Kongressakten zum ersten Symposium des Mediävistemerbandes in Tübingen, 1984, ed. J.O. Fichte et al. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1986 VIII Towards modus in habendo: transformations in the idea of avarice. The early penitentials through the Carolingian reforms Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte 106, Kanonistische Abteilung 75. Vienna, 1989 IX Avarice and the apocalypse The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050, eds R. Landes, A. Gow and D. Van Meter. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 X Avaritia und paupertas: zur Stellung der frühen Franziskaner in der Geschichte der Habsucht In proposito paupertatis. Studien zum Armutsverständnis bei den mittelalterlichen Bettelorden, Vita regularis 13, eds G. Melville and A. Kehnel. Münster: LIT, 2001 XI The meaning of Gawain’s greed Studies in Philology 87,4. Chapel Hill, NC, 1990 XII Patristic Poggio? The evidence of Györ, Egyházmegyei Könyvtár MS. I.4 Rinascimento 26. Florence. 1986 Part 3: Curiosity XIII Towards a history of human curiosity: a prolegomenon to its medieval phase Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift 56. Stuttgart, 1982 XIV Augustinian vitium curiositatis and its reception Saint Augustine and his Influence in the Middle Ages, Sewanee Mediaeval Studies 3, eds E.B. King and J.T. Schaefer. Sewanee, TN: The Press of the University of the South, 1988 XV The sin of curiosity and the Cistercians Erudition at God’s Service, Studies in Medieval Cistercian History 11, Cistercian Studies Series 98, ed. J.R. Sommerfeldt. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications Inc., 1987 Addenda and Corrigenda Index