Gluttony: The Seven Deadly Sins

Author / Editor
Prose, Francine.

Title
Gluttony: The Seven Deadly Sins

Published
New York: New York Public Library; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Physical Description
x, 108 pp. 8 b&w plates; 8 color plates.

Description
Surveys understandings of and attitudes toward gluttony (especially drunkenness and overeating) from Church fathers to M. F. K. Fisher in theology, literature, art, and popular culture, including a summary of PardT (pp. 15-19).

Chaucer Subjects
Pardoner and His Tale