Dante & the unorthodox: the aesthetics of transgression‎ - Page 155by James L. Miller - Social Science - 2005 - 566 pages
In this tradition of moral analysis, accidie is always linked with and derived from anger. THE UNSETTLED HISTORY OF ACCIDIE The Latin word acedia is a ...
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mental disease in history: a selection of translated readings‎ - Page 77by John Thomas Dalby - Psychology - 1996 - 264 pages
Acedia or the Depressed Between Sin and Illness J. Alliez and JP. Huber Summary: Acedia is a term of the classical Greek vocabulary that a Christian author ...
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This edited volume of nineteen articles brings for the first time to an English speaking audience the work of important writers in the Spanish, French, and German who note the concepts and treatments of mental disease in the past. Important influences on our modern concepts of mental illness are presented in a fresh perspective.
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Affective mapping: melancholia and the politics of modernism‎ - Page 70by Jonathan Flatley - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 263 pages
WALTER BENJAMIN, PARALIPOMENA TO "ON THE CONCEPT OF HISTORY" In thesis 7 of "On ... Its origin is that indolence of the heart, that acedia which despairs of ...
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Passions and tempers: a history of the humours‎by Noga Arikha - Medical - 2007 - 376 pages
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Continuity and change: the harvest of late medieval and Reformation history ...‎ - Page 185by Robert James Bast, Andrew Colin Gow, Heiko Augustinus Oberman - Religion - 2000 - 459 pages
In the process, he blended acedia into tristitia and in the regions under ... Siegfried Wenzel speculated that Gregory sacrificed acedia because it was too ...
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Beyond depression: a new approach to understanding and management‎ - Page 136by Christopher Dowrick - Medical - 2004 - 225 pages
... have their origins in European religious and cultural history. Acedia (also accidie, accidia) is derived from the Greek term for 'absence of care'. ...

Melancholy, love, and time: boundaries of the self in ancient literature‎ - Page 142by Peter Toohey - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 386 pages
He may mark a new phase in the history of acedia. In Gregory's scheme of things, to judge from his language, acedia is an unimportant evil — notwithstanding ...

On evil‎ - Page 359by Thomas, Thomas de Aquino, Jean T. Oesterle, John A. Oesterle - Philosophy - 1995 - 547 pages
Since then acedia is not in the genus of love but rather is a kind of sadness, ... [the history, various meanings, and spellings of the word in that ...


Passions and tempers: a history of the humours‎by Noga Arikha - Medical - 2007 - 376 pages
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Resistance to the demands of love: Aquinas on the vice of AcediaRK DEYOUNG - The Thomist, 2004 - cat.inist.frResistance to the demands of love: Aquinas on the vice of Acedia. Rebecca KonyndykDEYOUNG The Thomist 68:22, 173-204, Thomist Press, 2004. Cited by 1 - Related articles - BL Direct
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Mencius and Aquinas: theories of virtue and conceptions of courage‎ - Page 87by Lee H. Yearley - Philosophy - 1990 - 280 pages
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Evagrius of Pontus: The Greek Ascetic Corpus‎ - Page 26by Robert E. Sinkewicz - Religion - 2006 - 416 pages
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The secret wound: love-melancholy and early modern romance‎ - Page 14by Marion A. Wells - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 368 pages
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Gerard Manley Hopkins‎ - Page 145by Jerome Bump - Literary Criticism - 1982 - 225 pages
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How Should One Live?: Essays on the Virtues‎ - Page 160by Roger Crisp, Oxford University Press - Philosophy - 1998 - 272 pages
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The phenomenon of boredomM Martin, G Sadlo, G Stew - Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2006 - informaworld.com... monotony (Kuhn, 1976). The word ‘acedia’ was used at this time, which iscloser to what we would describe as tedium. Plato defended ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
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Philosophy and education: an introduction‎ - Page 159by Louis Arnaud Reid - Education - 1962 - 203 pages
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Boredom and the religious imagination‎ - Page 2by Michael L. Raposa - Religion - 1999 - 199 pages
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The working life: the promise and betrayal of modern work‎ - Page 41by Joanne B. Ciulla - Psychology - 2000 - 266 pages
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On evil‎ - Page 359by Thomas, Thomas de Aquino, Jean T. Oesterle, John A. Oesterle - Philosophy - 1995 - 547 pages
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The primacy of love: an introduction to the ethics of Thomas Aquinas‎ - Page 104by Paul J. Wadell - Religion - 1992 - 162 pages
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Saturn and melancholy: studies in the history of natural philosophy ...‎ - Page 248by Raymond Klibansky, Erwin Panofsky, Fritz Saxl - Art - 1979 - 429 pages
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Whatever became of sin?‎ - Page 146by Karl Augustus Menninger - Religion - 1973 - 242 pages
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Encounter with Erikson: historical interpretation and religious biography‎ - Page 389by Erik Homburger Erikson, Donald Capps, Walter H. Capps, Miles Gerald Bradford, American Academy of Religion, University of California, Santa Barbara. Institute of Religious Studies - Biography & Autobiography - 1977 - 429 pages
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The person and the common life: studies in a Husserlian social ethics‎ - Page 119by James G. Hart - Philosophy - 1992 - 482 pages
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Beyond depression: a new approach to understanding and management‎ - Page 136by Christopher Dowrick - Medical - 2004 - 225 pages
Acedia (also accidie, accidia) is derived from the Greek term for 'absence of ... The synne of accidie' Acedia was a commonly used term in medieval Europe. ...
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Sin Returns to SociologyA MacIntyre - Hastings Center Report, 1979 - jstor.org... So, for example, sloth is initially defined as a medieval English translation ofthe Latin acedia and it is said that "Mentally, acedia has a number of ... Cited by 1 - Related articles - All 2 versions

Aquinas's teaching on acedia: Flight from God as friendPA Murphy - Boston College Dissertations and Theses, 2003 - escholarship.bc.edu... Aquinas's teaching on acedia: Flight from God as friend Patricia Anne Murphy, BostonCollege Date: 2003. » Download the dissertation (PDF format). ... Cached - All 2 versions

The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and LiteratureRM Wilson - The Modern Language Review, 1970 - JSTORThe Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature. RM Wilson. ... 65, No. 1,129. Jan., 1970. The Sin of Sloth: Acedia in Medieval Thought and Literature. ...

Acedia or the depressed between sin and illnessJ Alliez, JP Huber - Annales médico-psychologiques, 1987 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov1: Ann Med Psychol (Paris). 1987 May;145(5):393-408. [Acedia or the depressed betweensin and illness]. [Article in French] Alliez J, Huber JP. ... Related articles - All 2 versions

is Harden'd": Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and the Thomistic Concepts of desperatio and acediaLL BRONSON - Aquinas. Rivista de Filosofia Roma, 1982 - cat.inist.fr" My Heart is Harden'd": Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and the Thomistic Conceptsof desperatio and acedia. LL BRONSON Aquinas. Rivista de ...

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[CITATION] The Misery of Monks and the Laziness of the Laity: Overcoming the Sin of AcediaJJ Tyler - STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN …, 2005 - BRILL

[BOOK] Acedia & me: a marriage, monks, and a writer's lifeK Norris - 2008 - Riverhead Books (Hardcover)
[CITATION] A study of the interrelationship of depression and acedia with a suggestion for pastoral careRE Gamel - 1990 - St. John' s Seminary.

Acedia, Tristitia and Sloth: Early Christian Forerunners to Chronic Ennui.I Irvine - Humanitas, 1999 - questia.com... Acedia, Tristitia and Sloth: Early Christian Forerunners to Chronic Ennui. ... 12, 1999.Acedia, Tristitia and Sloth: Early Christian Forerunners to Chronic Ennui. ... All 2 versions

Acedia & Me belongs on the shelf of every spiritual director—and everyone who has ever …B Newman - muse.jhu.eduPage 1. Page 2. Book Reviews 125 Acedia & Me belongs on the shelf of every spiritualdirector—and everyone who has ever wrestled with the noonday demon. ... All 2 versions



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Melancholy and the critique of modernity: Søren Kierkegaard's religious ...‎ - Page 7by Harvie Ferguson - Philosophy - 1995 - 286 pages
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Vice of Acedia‎by Urban Voll - Monastic and religious life - 1950 - 254 pages
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[CITATION] AcediaY Hersant - Tradition de Ia mélancolie". Le Débat—Histoire- …, 1984Cited by 4 - Related articles
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The seven deadly sins: society and evil‎ - Page 10by Stanford M. Lyman - Humor - 1989 - 355 pages
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