Books written by Richard Newhauser

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  Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins

  A fresh consideration of the enduring tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, showing its continuing post-medieval influence.

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  The Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities to Individuals

  These essays examine the seven deadly sins as cultural constructions in the Middle Ages and beyond, focusing on the way concepts of the sins are used in medieval communities, the institution of the Church, and by secular artists and authors ...

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  Literature and Religion in the Later Middle Ages: Philological Studies in Honor of Siegfried Wenzel

  This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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  The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature

  Yet the philargyros is worse than the glutton, for whereas the latter may recover after a night's sleep, greed ... as a member of the body of the church, he can also assert that nothing divides people from each other so much as envy.

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  In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages

  As to the seven deadly sins , my discussion has shown that , from the simplest level of merely listing them to their sophisticated integration in or into a longer sermon , skilled preachers succeeded very well in connecting them with ...

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  Sin: Essays on the Moral Tradition in the Western Middle Ages

  Richard Newhauser. am häufigsten vorkommenden Gattungstitel, der mit dem Tugend- und Lastertraktat verknüpft werden kann, als er erklärte: pro pleniori deductione thematis prenotati vtile duxi tam de theologorum quam philosophorum ...

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  The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature

  In this full-length study of the early history of greed Richard Newhauser challenges the traditional view that avarice only became a dominant sin with the rise of a money economy.