GREAT history of acedia!!!!

Source: whole chapter is there!
http://books.google.ca/books?hl=en&lr=&id=YVDXCatGGssC&oi=fnd&pg=PA43&dq=aquinas+tristitia&ots=bTQpagtagE&sig=yiDuG-p1y6u7g2klW03tC5zKFOU#PPA60,M1
CHAPTER - ACEDIA THE SIN AND ITS RELATION TO SORROW AND MELANCHOLIA - great! p. 43 in book "CULTURE AND DEPRESSION" - chapter by Stanley W. Jackson
VERY helpful - mentions the ancients and a lot of cassian and christian stuff. bewares of simplifying by calling modern depression.
Best quick version of Aquinas I have ever seen - regarding sorrow/tristitia/
EXCELLENT KNOWLEDGE OF HISTORY - explains the evolving of acedia, the loss of influence of church as source of integrative/interpretation human/ renaissancizing - etc.
55. healing outlook - diff. between judgmental and healing approach - .
loss of tristitia -
protestantization- from acedia to neglect/idleness/indolence - (despite a "busy" person could be acedic for Aquinas)
p. 56 - renaissance rehabilitation of melancholia - character corrleate of genius/giftedness. (even aquinas has something i think sort of acc. to eleanor stump - but be careful in both attributions - check it out)
melancholy as similar to our use of "depression" today
56 - again protestant changes - also leaders faced with fear of problem of increasing mass of able-bodied poor
57 - western preoccupation as a whole - whether of sympathy or concern, or of impatience
58 - relative emphasis on psychological factors in Western tradition, relative emph. on somatic factors in Eastern (cit there)
GREAT biblio - esp. p.60 and 61 two or three titles in particular
wenzel - the sin of sloth: acedia in medieval thought and literature
journal of the history of behavioral science - melancholy and partial insanity 19: 173-84
He's also awesome (both himself) and his sources on the pastoral caring/medicinal/doctoral approaches in the middle ages.