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This chapter considers traditional symbolic correlations of avarice, such as dropsy, yet also relates the sin to the passion of fear and the physiological aging process. Furthermore, it posits a biological and theological distinction between avarice and covetousness.
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Langum, V. (2016). Avarice. 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_6
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