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

Name: Early History of Greed The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature
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ISBN: 9780521026482

ISBN-10: 0521026482

ISBN-13: 9780521026482

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Authors: Richard Newhauser, Alastair Minnis, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Rita Copeland

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List price: $43.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.90" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Rita Copeland is Professor of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.



List of abbreviations


Preface



Alms and ascetes, round stones and masons: avarice in the early church



Ascetic transformations I: monks and the laity in eastern Christendom



Ascetic transformations II: soaring eagles or safety in the herd - from anchoritic to cenobitic monasticism



Ascetic transformations III: the Latin west in the fourth and fifth centuries



Secularizing avarice and cupidity


Epilogue: Future perspectives


Appendix


Notes


Bibliography


Indexes