The seven deadly sins are pride, envy, anger, sloth, gluttony, greed, and lust. The seven virtues are prudence, fortitude, temperance, justice, faith, hope, and love. This book brings all of them together and for the first time lays out their history in a collection of the most important philosophical, religious, literary, and art-historical works. Starting with the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian antecedents, this anthology of source documents traces the virtues-and-vices tradition through its cultural apex during the medieval era and then into their continued development and transformation from the Renaissance to the present. This anthology includes excerpts of Plato's Republic, the Bible, Dante's Purgatorio, and the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and C. S. Lewis. Also included are artworks from medieval manuscripts; paintings by Giotto, Veronese, and Paul Cadmus; prints by Brueghel; and a photograph by Oscar Rejlander. What these works show is the vitality and richness of the virtues and vices in the arts from their origins to the present. You can continue this book's conversation by visiting
Author(s): Shawn R. Tucker
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 297
City: Cambridge
Front cover......Page 1
Half title......Page 2
Title page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
Human Potential and Protection I......Page 26
Human Potential and Protection II......Page 27
Plato's the Republic......Page 28
Aristotle's the Nicomachean Ethics......Page 50
Cicero's of Duties......Page 61
Proverbs......Page 72
Isaiah......Page 79
Matthew......Page 81
Paul's Letters......Page 82
Part II. Codification of the Virtues
and Vices......Page 86
Tertullian’s The Shows......Page 87
Prudentius’s Psychomachia......Page 89
Evagrius of Pontus’s On the Eight Thoughts......Page 96
Gregory the Great’s Morals on the Book of Job......Page 105
Divine Endowment......Page 118
The Struggle......Page 119
Contraries Cured by Contraries......Page 121
The Summa......Page 122
Psychomachia Illustrations......Page 125
Illustrations of the Speculum Virginum......Page 129
Hildegard of Bingen’s Ordo Virtutum......Page 138
Notre Dame of Amiens Twelve Virtues and Twelve Vices......Page 151
Giotto’s Virtues and Vices in the Arena Chapel......Page 154
Dante’s Purgatorio......Page 160
Ambrogio Lorenzetti’s Paintings in the Palazzo Pubblico, Siena......Page 169
William Langland’s Piers Plowman......Page 172
Geoffrey Chaucer’s “The Parson’s Tale”......Page 181
Divine Endowment II......Page 190
Struggle II......Page 191
The Virtues and Vices in Everyday Life and in Death......Page 192
The Vitality of Vice......Page 193
Piero Del Pollaiuolo's Seven Virtues......Page 194
Andrea Mantegna's Minerva Chases the Vices from the Garden f Virtue......Page 197
Niccolò Machiavelli's the Prince......Page 198
Bernaert Van Orley (Designer) and Workshop of Pieter Van Aelst (Weaver) the Honors......Page 206
Peter Brueghel the Elder's Virtues and Vices......Page 208
Edmund Spencer's the Faerie Queene......Page 213
The Struggle III......Page 249
The Virtues and Vices in Everyday Life and in Death II......Page 250
The Vitality of Vice II......Page 251
Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography......Page 252
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil and the Antichrist......Page 260
Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's the Seven Deadly Sins......Page 268
C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity......Page 271
Paul Cadmus's the Seven Deadly Sins......Page 276
Epilogue......Page 281
Appendix 1. Key Virtues and Vices Works......Page 284
Bibliography......Page 290
Acknowledgment of Copyright......Page 295
Back cover......Page 297
