medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
--- "Howe, John" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>
> Cassian's list of eight sins is really the
> traditional seven: it is just that accedia has been
> subdivided down into dejection and sloth. See
> Siegfried Wenzel, The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in
> Medieval Thought and Literature (1967). --John
> Howe
Quite so, although what I have read indicates rather
that later moralists combined two in order to make the
canonical seven. Either way, though, I would expect
the medieval love of correspondences to subdivide a
virtue in order to make the two lists match in number.
Or would the sins rather been paired with the
Beatitudes as remedy?
Andrea Luxenburg
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