medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Jonathan wrote:
> Sara--
>
> I think this is what you're looking for--I'm surprised Thayer didn't
> provide a reference herself:
>
> 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.
>
Thanks to Jonathan and the fact that I've FINALLY
started to clean up my study (does anyone know
someone who will lend me a backhoe?), I pulled
_De_ore_Domini_ off my shelf.
Newhauser translates the Latin as "vicarious or
indirect or accessary" sins. "Alien" can work,
too, since they are sins A commits by causing B
to sin. The nine are:
1. Command. (order someone to sin, e.g. I tell
my wife to swipe the backhoe at the building
site across the street so I can clean my
study)
2. Advice.
3. Consent, i.e. I don't swipe the backhoe
myself nor command or advise someone to
do it, but my neighbour does it and I'm glad
he did.
4. Praise.
5. Protection, i.e. I alibi for my thieving
neighbour about the backhoe.
6. Participation, i.e. accessory after the fact,
living off the avails, etc.
7. Concealment, i.e. I do not tell my priest
where my neighbour hid the backhoe even
though I know.
8. Not opposing.
9. Not revealing.
Do read the article. The above is obviously a poor
condensation of Newhauser's enlightenment on the
subject.
Regards to all!
Frank
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