The Seven Deadly Sins as Cultural Constructions in the Middle Ages

FAIN: FS-50012-03

Trinity University (San Antonio, TX 78212-7201)
Richard G. Newhauser (Project Director: March 2003 to April 2005)

A five-week seminar for 15 college teachers on the cultural construction of moral thought in the Middle Ages.

Media Coverage

(Review)
Publication: Theological Studies 69.3
Date: 9/1/2008
Abstract: pp. 687-89

(Review)
Publication: The Medieval Review
Date: 6/12/2008

Associated Products

The Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities to Individuals (Book)
Title: The Seven Deadly Sins: From Communities to Individuals
Editor: Richard G. Newhauser
Abstract: This volume presents a selection of essays undertaken by participants in an NEH Summer Seminar in 2004 on the topic of the seven deadly sins, viewed individually and as a whole, as part of the Begriffsgeschichte of the Middle Ages and beyond in which concepts are constructed within the cultural milieus in which they function. The essays in the first part study the political and social ethics of medieval communities. In the second part, the institutional imperatives within the Church of formulating and teaching about the capital vices are the focus of research. In the final section, the contributions deal with ways in which secular artists and authors (in particular, Dante) contribute to the cultural construction of the vices.
Year: 2007
Publisher: Brill
Type: Edited Volume
ISBN: 90-04-15785-9

Sin and its Cultural Place in the West: Medieval and Early Modern (Book)
Title: Sin and its Cultural Place in the West: Medieval and Early Modern
Author: Newhauser, Richard G.
Year: 2013
Publisher: York Medieval Press
Type: Single author monograph

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