The words for the Seven Deadly Sins
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1965
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The earliest known Christian list of a group of sins to be avoided grew out of the teachings of one of the "desert fathers" in Egypt in the late fourth century. This thesis traces the development of this concept through the outstanding medieval writers and Indicates its prominence in the Middle English period, during which the concept became a popular subject for clerical and secular writers of England. [...]