I. Primary Presentations

A. Desert and Monastery

Cassian, John.  Collationes patrum.  Edited and translated by E. Pichery.  3 vols.  SC 42 [New ed., 1966], 54 [New ed., 1967], 64.  Paris: Cerf, 1955–1959.

---.  De institutis coenobiorum.  Edited and translated by Jean-Claude Guy.  SC 109.  Paris: Cerf, 1965.

Evagrius Ponticus.  De malignis cogitationibus.  In Évagre le Pontique: Sur les pensées, edited by Paul Géhin, Claire Guillaumont, and Antoine Guillaumont.  SC 438.  Paris: Cerf, 1998.

---.  Praktikos.  In Évagre le Pontique: Traité pratique ou le moine, edited and translated by Antoine Guillaumont and Claire Guillaumont.  2 vols.  SC 170–71.  Paris: Cerf, 1971.

---.  De octo spiritibus malitiae.  PG 79:1145A–64D.

---.  De vitiis quae opposita sunt virtutibus.  PG 79:1139–44.

Gregory the Great.  Moralia in Iob.  Edited by M. Adriaen.  3 vols.  CCSL 143–143B.  Turnhout: Brepols, 1979–1985.

B. Court

Alcuin.  Liber de virtutibus et vitiis.  PL 101:613–38.

Martin of Braga.  Formula vitae honestae, De ira, and De superbia.  In Martini episcopi Bracarensis opera omnia, edited by C. W, Barlow, 236–50, 150-58, 69-73.  Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, 12.  New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1950.

Prudentius.  Psychomachia.  In Aurelii Prudentii Clementis carmina.  Edited by M. P. Cunningham.  CCL 126.  Turnhout: Brepols, 1966.

C. University

Abelard, Peter.  Peter Abelard's Ethics: An Edition with Introduction.  Edited by D. E. Luscombe.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1971.

Alan of Lille.  Liber poenitentialis.  Edited by Jean Longère.  2 vols.  Analecta Mediaevalia Namurcensia, 17-18.  Louvain: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1965.

---.  De virtutibus et de vitiis et de donis spiritus sancti.  Edited by Odo Lottin.  In Psychologie et morale aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles, 6:27–92.  Gembloux: J. Duculot, 1960.

Aristotle.  Ethica Nicomachea.  Translated by Robert Grosseteste.  Edited by René-Antoine Gauthier.  In Aristoteles Latinus, vol. 26/3.  Leiden: Brill, 1972.

Conrad of Hirsau.  Liber de fructu carnis et spiritus.  PL 176:997–1006.

Hugh of St. Victor.  De quinque septenis.  In H. de Saint-Victor.  Six opuscules spirituels.  Edited by R. Baron, 100–18.  SC 155.  Paris: Cerf, 1969.

Peter Lombard.  Magistri Petri Lombardi Parisiensis episcopi Sententiae in IV libris distinctae.  2 vols.  3^rd ed.  Spicilegium Bonaventurianum, 4–5.  Grottaferrata: Collegium S. Bonaventurae, 1971–1981.

Thomas Aquinas.  Summa theologiae.  9 vols.  In Sancti Thomae Aquinatis doctoris angelici opera omnia iussu impensaque Leonis XIII P. M. edita, vols. 4–12.  Rome: Typographia Polyglotta S. C. de Propaganda Fide, 1888–1906.

The Cardinal Virtues: Aquinas, Albert, and Philip the Chancelor.  Translated by R. E. Houser.  Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, 2004.

D. Church and Pastoralia

Alexander Carpenter.  Destructorium viciorum.  Cologne, 1485; Paris, 1521.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.  "The Parson's Tale."  In The Riverside Chaucer.  Edited by L. D. Benson et al., 288–328.  3rd ed.  New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Gerson, Jean.  "Le profit de savoir quel est péché mortel et véniel."  In  Jean Gerson.  Œuvres complètes.  Edited by Palémon Glorieux, 7/1:370–89.  Paris: Desclée, 1966.

Guillaume de Deguilleville. Le Pelerinage de vie humaine.  Edited by J. J. Stürzinger.  Publications of the Roxburghe Club, 124.  London: Nichols & Sons, 1893).

Hugh Ripelin of Strasbourg.  Compendium theologicae veritatis.  In Albertus Magnus, Opera omnia, edited by S. C. A. Borgnet, 34:1-261.  Paris: Vives, 1899.

Lavynham, Richard.  A Litil Tretys on the Seven Deadly Sins.  Edited by J. P. W. M. van Zutphen.  Rome: Institutum Carmelitanum, 1956.

Mannyng, Robert.  Handlyng Synne.  Edited by F. J. Furnivall.  EETS os, 119.  London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1901.

Peraldus, William.  Summa virtutum ac vitiorum Guilhelmi Paraldi Episcopi Lugdunensis de ordine predicatorum.  Paris: Johannes Petit, Johannes Frellon, Franciscus Regnault, 1512.

Robert of Flamborough.  Liber poenitentialis.  Edited by J. J. Francis Firth.  Studies and Texts, 18.  Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1971.

Ps.-Vincent of Beauvais.  Speculum morale.  In Vincentii Burgundi Speculum quadruplex sive speculum maius, vol. 3.  Douai: Ex officina Typographica Baltazaris Belleri, 1624.  Reprint, Graz: Akademische Druck- und Verlagsanstalt, 1964.

E. City

Berthold of Regensburg.  Berthold von Regensburg: Vollständige Ausgabe seiner Predigten.  Edited by Franz Pfeiffer and Joseph Strobl.  2 vols.  Vienna: W. Braumueller, 1862-80.  Reprint, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1965. Edited by Franz Pfeiffer and Joseph Strobl.  2 vols.  Vienna: W. Braumueller, 1862-80.  Reprint, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1965.

Book for a Simple and Devout Woman: A Late Middle English Adaptation of Peraldus's "Summa de vitiis et virtutibus" and Friar Laurent's "Somme le Roi."  Edited by F. N. M. Diekstra.  Mediaevalia Groningana, 24.  Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1998.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.  "The Shipman's Tale."  In The Riverside Chaucer.  Edited by L. D. Benson et al., 203–8.  3rd ed.  New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Dante Alighieri.  The Divine Comedy.  Edited and trans. by John D. Sinclair.  3 vols.  New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1939–1946.

The Latin and German "Etymachia": Textual History, Edition, Commentary.  Edited by Nigel Harris.  MTU 102.  Munich: Beck, 1994.

Gower, John.  Confessio Amantis.  In The English Works of John Gower, edited by G. C. Macaulay.  2 vols.  EETS es, 81-82.  London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1900-1.

Notre-Dame Cathedral.  Paris.

Peter the Chanter.  Verbum abbreviatum.  PL 205:21-528A.

Tapestry of the Vices and Virtues.  Regensburg, Historisches Museum.

 

II. Secondary Works

A. General Works on the Vices

Bloomfield, Morton W.  The Seven Deadly Sins: An Introduction to the History of a Religious Concept, with Special Reference to Medieval English Literature.  [East Lansing, MI:] Michigan State Univ. Press, 1952.  Reprint, 1967.

Bossy, John.  "Moral Arithmatic: Seven Sins into Ten Commandments."  In Conscience and Casuistry in Early Modern Europe.  Edited by Edmund Leites, 214–34.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Paris: Editions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, 1988.

Boyde, Patrick.  Human Vices and Human Worth in Dante's "Comedy."  Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000.

Casagrande, Carla, and Silvana Vecchio.  "La classificazione dei peccati tra settenario e decalogo (secoli XIII–XV)."  Documenti e studi sulla tradizione filosofica medievale 5 (1994): 331–95.

---.  I sette vizi capitali: Storia dei peccati nel Medioevo.  Saggi, 832.  Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 2000.

---.  "Péché."  In Dictionnaire Raisonné de l'Occident Médiéval.  Edited by Jacques Le Goff and Jean-Claude Schmitt, 877–91.  Paris: Fayard, 1999.

Delumeau, Jean.  Sin and Fear.  The Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture 13^th – 18^th Centuries.  Trans. Eric Nicholson.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Howard, Donald R.  The Three Temptations: Medieval Man in Search of the World.  Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1966.

Huizinga, Johan.  The Autumn of the Middle Ages.  Translated by Rodney Payton and Ulrich Mammitzsch.  Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1996.

In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages.  Edited by Richard G. Newhauser.  Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, 2005.

Jehl, Rainer.  "Die Geschichte des Lasterschemas und seiner Funktion."  Franziskanische Studien 64 (1982): 261–359.

Kent, Bonnie.  Virtues of the Will: The Transformation of Ethics in the Late Thirteenth Century.  Washington, D. C.: Catholic Univ. of America Press, 1995.

Kroll, Jerome, and Bernard Bachrach.  "Sin and Mental Illness in the Middle Ages."  Psychological Medicine 14 (1984): 507-14.

Lottin, Odon.  Psychologie et morale aux XIIe et XIIIe siècles.  6 vols.  Gembloux: J. Duculot, 1942–1960.  [Vol. 1.  2^nd ed.  1957].

MacIntyre, Alasdair C.  After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory.  2^nd ed.  Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1984.

Markus, Robert A.  The End of Ancient Christianity.  Cambridge, Eng. and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1990.

Newhauser, Richard G.  The Treatise on Vices and Virtues in Latin and the Vernacular.  Typologie des sources du moyen âge occidental, 68.  Turnhout: Brepols, 1993.

---.  "Virtues and Vices."  In Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Supplement 1.  Edited by William Chester Jordan, 628-33.  New York: Scribners, 2004.

---.  "Zur Zweideutigkeit in der Moraltheologie: Als Tugenden verkleidete Laster."  In Der Fehltritt: Vergehen und Versehen in der Vormoderne.  Edited by Peter Von Moos, 377–402.  Norm und Struktur, 15.  Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna: Böhlau, 2001.

Solignac, Aimé.  "Péchés capitaux."  In Dictionnaire de Spiritualité 12/1:853–62.

Tentler, Thomas.  Sin and Confession on the Eve of the Reformation.  Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1977.

Tuve, Rosamond.  "Notes on the Virtues and Vices."  Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 26 (1963): 264–303; 27 (1964): 42–72.

Utley, Francis L.  "The Seven Deadly Sins: Then and Now."  Indiana Social Sciences Quarterly 25 (1975): 31–50.

Wenzel, Siegfried.  "The Seven Deadly Sins: Some Problems of Research."  Speculum 43 (1968): 1–22.

Zöckler, Otto.  Das Lehrstück von den sieben Hauptsünden: Beiträge zur Dogmen- und zur Sittengeschichte, in besonders der vorreformatorischen Zeit.  In O. Zöckler.  Biblische und kirchenhistorische Studien, 3.  Munich: Beck, 1893.

B. Individual Vices or Systems of Vice

Anger's Past: The Social Uses of an Emotion in the Middle Ages.  Edited by Barbara Rosenwein.  Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 1998.

Augst, Rüdiger.  Lebensverwirklichung und christlicher Glaube: Acedia: Religiöse Gleichgültigkeit als Problem der Spiritualität bei Evagrius Ponticus.  Saarbrücker theologische Forschungen, 3.  Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1990.

Bejczy, István.  "John of La Rochelle and William Peraldus on the Virtues and Vices."  Archivum Franciscanum Historicum 97 (2004): 99-110.

Bunge, Gabriel.  Akedia: Die geistliche Lehre des Evagrios Pontikos vom Überdruß.  4^th rev. ed.  Würzburg: Der Christliche Osten, 1995.

Cadden, Joan.  " 'Nothing Natural Is Shameful': Vestiges of a Debate about Sex and Science in a Group of Late-Medieval Manuscripts."  Speculum 76 (2001): 66-89.

Casagrande, Carla, and Silvana Vecchio.  I peccati della lingua: disciplina ed etica della parola nella cultura medievale.  Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1987.

Karras, Ruth Mazo.  "Two Models, Two Standards: Moral Teaching and Sexual Mores."  In Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England, edited by Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace, 123-38.  Medieval Cultures, 9.  Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1996.

Little, Lester K.  "Pride Goes before Avarice: Social Change and the Vices in Latin Christendom."  The American Historical Review 76 (1971): 16–49.

Markus, Robert A.  "De civitate Dei: Pride and the Common Good."  Collectanea Augustiniana 1 (1990): 245-59.

Murray, Alexander.  Reason and Society in the Middle Ages.  Oxford: Clarendon, 1978.

Newhauser, Richard G.  "From Treatise to Sermon: Johannes Herolt on the novem peccata aliena."  In De ore domini: Preacher and Word in the Middle Ages.  Edited by T. L. Amos et al., 185–209. Studies in Medieval Culture, 27.  Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Press, 1989.

---.  The Early History of Greed: The Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature.  Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 41.  Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000.

Payer, Pierre.  The Bridling of Desire: Views of Sex in the Later Middle Ages.  Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1993.

Nani, T. Suarez.  "Du goût et de la gourmandise selon Thomas d'Aquin."  In I cinque sensi / The Five Senses.  Micrologus, 10.  Florence: Edizioni del Galluzzo, SISMEL, 2002.  In press.

Theunissen, Michael.  Vorentwürfe der Moderne: Antike Melancholie und die Acedia des Mittelalters.  Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 1996.

Vincent-Cassy, Mireille.  "L'Envie en France au Moyen Age."  Annales E.S.C. 35 (1980): 253-71.

---.  "Quand les femmes deviennent paresseuses."  In Femmes: Mariages-Lignages, XIIe-XIVe siècles: Mélanges offerts à Georges Duby, 431-47.  Bibliothèque du Moyen Age, 1.  Bruxelles: De Boeck Université, 1992.

Wenzel, Siegfried.  The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature.  Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1967.

---.  "The Three Enemies of Man."  Mediaeval Studies 29 (1967): 47-66.

C. The Vices in Art

Baumann, Priscilla. "The Deadliest Sin: Warnings Against Avarice and Usury on Romanesque Capitals in Auvergne."  Church History 59 (1990): 7-18.

Blöcker, Susanne.  Studien zur Ikonographie der Sieben Todsünden in der niederländischen und deutschen Malerei und Graphik von 1450–1560.  Bonner Studien zur Kunstgeschichte, 8.  Münster and Hamburg: LIT, 1993.

Katzenellenbogen, Adolf.  Allegories of the Virtues and Vices in Mediaeval Art from Early Christian Times to the Thirteenth Century.  Translated by Alan J. P. Crick.  London: The Warburg Institute, 1939.  Reprint, Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1989.

Norman, Joanne S.  Metamorphoses of an Allegory: The Iconography of the Psychomachia in Medieval Art.  American University Studies, series IX: History, 29.  New York: Lang, 1988.

O'Reilly, Jennifer.  Studies in the Iconography of the Virtues and Vices in the Middle Ages.  New York, London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1988.

Schweitzer, Franz-Josef.  Tugend und Laster in illustrierten didaktischen Dichtungen des späten Mittelalters: Studien zu Hans Vintlers "Blumen der Tugend" und zu "Des Teufels Netz."  Germanistische Texte und Studien, 41.  Hildesheim: Olms, 1993.

Virtue and Vice: The Personifications in the Index of Christian Art.  Edited by Colum Hourihane.  Princeton: Index of Christian Art, 2000.

Voelkle, William M.  "Morgan Manuscript M.1001: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Evil Ones."  In Monsters and Demons in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Papers Presented in Honor of Edith Porada, edited by Ann E. Farkas et al., 101-14.  Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1987.

D. Origins and the Vices

Brakke, David.  "The Making of Monastic Demonology: Three Ascetic Teachers on Withdrawal and Resistance."  Church History 70 (2001): 19-48.

Goehring, James E.  Ascetics, Society, and the Desert: Studies in Early Egyptian Monasticism.  Studies in Antiquity and Christianity.  The Roots of Egyptian Christianity, [6].  Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press International, 1999.

Nussbaum, Martha C.  The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics.  Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1994.

O'Laughlin, Michael.  "The Anthropology of Evagrius Ponticus and Its Sources."  In Origen of Alexandria: His World and His Legacy, edited by Charles Kannengiesser and William L. Petersen, 357-73.  Notre Dame, IN: Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1988.

Röhser, Günter.  Metaphorik und Personifikation der Sünde: Antike Sündenvorstellungen und paulinische Hamartia.  Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, Reihe 2, 25.  Tübingen: Mohr, 1987.

Sorabji, Richard.  Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic Agitation to Christian Temptation.  Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2000.

Stewart, Columba.  Cassian the Monk.  New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998.

Straw, Carole.  Gregory the Great: Perfection in Imperfection.  Transformation of the Classical Heritage, 14.  Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: Univ. of California Press, 1988.

Wibbing, Siegfried.  Die Tugend- und Lasterkataloge im Neuen Testament.  Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche, 25.  Berlin: Töpelmann, 1959.

E. Pastoralia and the Vices

Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages.  Edited by Peter Biller and A. J. Minnis.  York: York Medieval Press, 1998.

Michaud-Quantin, Pierre.  Sommes de casuistique et manuels de confession au Moyen Age (XIIe-XIVe siècles).  Analecta mediaevalia Namurcensia, 13.  Louvain, Lille, and Montreal: Nauwelaerts, 1962.

Owst, Gerald R.  Literature and Pulpit in Medieval England.  2^nd rev. ed.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1961.

---.  Preaching in Medieval England: An Introduction to Sermon Manuscripts of the Period c. 1350-1450.  Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1926.  Reprint, New York: Russell & Russell, 1965.

Spencer, H. Leith.  English Preaching in the Late Middle Ages.  Oxford: Clarendon; New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1993.

F. Treatments of the Vices for a General Audience

Blackburn, Simon.  Lust.  Oxford, New York:  Oxford Univ. Press, 2004. 

Casagrande, Carla, and Silvana Vecchio.  I sette vizi capitali.  Storia dei peccati nel Medioevo.  Saggi 832.  Torino:  Giulio Einaudi, 2000.

Dyson, Michael Eric.  Pride.  Oxford, New York:  Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.

Epstein, Joseph.  Envy.  Oxford, New York:  Oxford Univ. Press, 2003. 

Fairlie, Henry.  The Seven Deadly Sins Today.  Washington, DC: New Republic Books, 1978.

Fleming, Ian, ed.  The Seven Deadly Sins.  London: Sunday Times Publications, 1962; reprint Pleasantville, NY: Akadine Press, 2002.

Prose, Francine.  Gluttony.  Oxford, New York:  Oxford Univ. Press, 2003. 

Pynchon, Thomas et al.  Deadly Sins. Illustrations by Etienne Delessert.  New York: W. Morrow, 1993.

Schimmel, Solomon.  The Seven Deadly Sins: Jewish, Christian, and Classical Reflections on Human Nature.  New York:  Free Press, 1992. Reprint New York, Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997.

Solomon, Robert C., ed.  Wicked Pleasures. Meditations on the Seven "Deadly" Sins.  London: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.

Thurman, Robert A. F.  Anger.  Oxford, New York:  Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.

Tickle, Phyllis A.  Greed.  Oxford, New York:  Oxford Univ. Press, 2004.

Wasserstein, Wendy.  Sloth.  Oxford, New York:  Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.