Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures and Plates vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. List of Abbreviations xiv
7. Introduction. Understanding Sin: Recent Scholarship and the Capital Vices 1
8. I. The sins in religious, intellectual and pastoral contexts
9. 1. Working for Reform: Acedia, Benedict of Aniane and the Transformation of Working Culture in Carolingian Monasticism 19
10. 2. The Cultural Career of a ‘Minor’ Vice: Arrogance in the Medieval Treatise on Sin 43
11. 3. Vices and Virtues: A Reassessment of Manuscript Stowe 34 65
12. 4. Aquinas on the Seven Deadly Sins: Tradition and Innovation 85
13. 5. A Fifteenth-Century Sermon Enacts the Seven Deadly Sins 107
14. 6. The Deadly Sins and Contemplative Politics: Gerson’s Ordering of the Personal and Political Realms 132
15. 7. ‘These Seaven Devils’: The Capital Vices on the Way to Modernity 157
16. II. The sins in the musical, literary and visual arts
17. 8. The Seven Deadly Sins in Medieval Music 191
18. 9. The Religion of the Mountain: Handling Sin in Dante’s Purgatorio 223
19. 10. John Gower’s Shaping of ‘The Tale of Constance’ as an Exemplum contra Envy 239
20. 11. Through Boschian Eyes: An Interpretation of the Prado Tabletop of the Seven Deadly Sins 261
21. 12. Singing Sin: Michel Beheim’s ‘Little Book of the Seven Deadly Sins’, a German Pre-Reformation Religious Text for the Laity 282
22. 13. Raising Cain: Vice, Virtue and Social Order in the German Reformation 304
23. Index 321