Description: A fresh consideration of the enduring tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins, showing its continuing post-medieval influence.
Brief description: CATE GUNN is an independent scholar who has written on thirteenth-century anchoritic and pastoral literature.
Review Quotes: Provides many interesting and valuable discussions of specific texts (and occasionally visual and musical sources), and the ways in which these employ the concept of sin and particularly that of the seven capital sins.[It] throws new light on the way people in the medieval and early modern world thought about sins, but also on how sins were good to think with.-- "HISTORY"