A fresh consideration of the enduring tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, showing its continuing post-medieval influence.

Introduction: Understanding Sin: Recent Scholarship and the Capital Vices - Richard G. NewhauserWorking for Reform: Acedia, Benedict of Aniane and the Transformation of Working Culture in Carolingian Monasticism - James B. WilliamsThe Cultural Career of a 'Minor' Vice: Arrogance in the Medieval Treatise in Sin - Kiril PetkovVices and Virtues: A Reassessment of Stowe MS 34 - Cate GunnAquinas on the Seven Deadly Sins: Tradition and Innovation - Eileen C. SweeneyA Fifteenth-Century Sermon Enacts the Seven Deadly Sins - Holly JohnsonThe Deadly Sins and Contemplative Politics: Gerson's Ordering of the Personal and Political Realms - Nancy A. McLoughlin'These Seaven Devils': The Capital Vices on the Way to Modernity - Richard G. NewhauserThe Seven Deadly Sins in Medieval Music - Anne Walters RobertsonThe Religion of the Mountain: Handling Sin in Dante's Purgatorio - Peter S. HawkinsJohn Gower's Shaping of 'The Tale of Constance' as an Exemplum contra Envy - Carol JamisonThrough Boschian Eyes: An Interpretation of the Prado Tabletop of the Seven Deadly Sins - Henry M. LuttikhuizenSinging Sin: Michel Beheim's 'Little Book of the Seven Deadly Sins', a German Pre-Reformation Religious Text for the Laity - William C. McDonaldRaising Cain: Vice, Virtue and Social Order in the German Reformation - Kathleen M. Crowther