Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture
This book considers how scientists, theologians, priests, and poets approached the relationship of the human body and ethics in the later Middle Ages. Is medicine merely a metaphor for sin? Or can certain kinds of bodies physiologically dispose people to
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Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture Virg inia Langum
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The New Middle Ages Series Editor Bonnie Wheeler English & Medieval Studies Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas, USA
The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections.
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Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture
Virginia Langum Umeå University Umeå, Sweden
The New Middle Ages ISBN 978-1-137-46558-0 ISBN 978-1-137-44990-0 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-44990-0
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I began this project after taking up a postdoctoral fellowship at Umeå University. The long, dark winters in northern Sweden proved conducive for contemplating weaknesses of spirit and body. However, the support was warm from the Umeå Group for Premodern Studies, particularly Jonas Carlquist, Elise Dermineur, Anna Foka, and Godelinde Perk as well as the members of the literary seminar at the Department of Language Studies. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond provided a further position that allowed me to develop this project into a book at the beautiful and tranquil Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study at Uppsala University. I am most grateful to the staff and fellows there, particularly the director Björn Wittrock. Over the years and in vari
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