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Wrath bears witness to the increasing difficulty of delineating metaphorical and material descriptions. However, pastoral and medical writers reach a certain consensus on the indicators of wrath: fire or heat, fever, swelling, madness.
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Langum, V. (2016). Wrath. 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_5
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