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Although considered the most intellectual and perhaps least bodily of the sins, pride also presents figurative and material symptoms in medieval texts. Pride was thought to be not only an agent of disease, particularly collective punishments such as plague, but also a potential risk of health.
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Langum, V. (2016). Pride. In: Medicine and the Seven Deadly Sins in Late Medieval Literature and Culture. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44990-0_3
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