Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture

Table of Contents

MEDICINE, SIN AND LANGUAGE

Medicine as Metaphor

Medicine as Metonymy

Medicine as Material

Metaphor as Medicine

PRIDE

Metaphorical Pride

Metonymic Pride

Material Pride

ENVY

Metaphorical Envy

Metonymic Envy

Material Envy

WRATH

Metaphorical Wrath

Metonymic Wrath

Material Wrath

AVARICE

Metaphorical Avarice

Metonymic Avarice

Material Avarice

SLOTH

Metaphorical Sloth

Metonymic Sloth

Material Sloth

GLUTTONY

Metaphorical Gluttony

Metonymic Gluttony

Material Gluttony

LECHERY

Metaphorical Lechery

Metonymic Lechery

Material Lechery

CONCLUSION

NOTES

Author: Virginia Langum
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/16/2016
Pages: 236
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.64h x 6.07w x 0.74d
ISBN: 9781137465580

About the Author

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.