Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 Alms and ascetes, round stones and masons: avarice in the early church
- 2 Ascetic transformations I: monks and the laity in eastern Christendom
- 3 Ascetic transformations II: soaring eagles or safety in the herd – from anchoritic to cenobitic monasticism
- 4 Ascetic transformations III: the Latin West in the fourth and fifth centuries
- 5 Secularizing avarice and cupidity
- Epilogue: Future perspectives
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index of names
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
General index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Preface
- 1 Alms and ascetes, round stones and masons: avarice in the early church
- 2 Ascetic transformations I: monks and the laity in eastern Christendom
- 3 Ascetic transformations II: soaring eagles or safety in the herd – from anchoritic to cenobitic monasticism
- 4 Ascetic transformations III: the Latin West in the fourth and fifth centuries
- 5 Secularizing avarice and cupidity
- Epilogue: Future perspectives
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- General index
- Index of names
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
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- The Early History of GreedThe Sin of Avarice in Early Medieval Thought and Literature, pp. 232 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000