Another name for lust was luxuria, and it focused more on the general idea of pursuing bodily pleasures.
All of the seven sins were just easy ways for the Pope Gregory to describe how certain behaviors can distract one from piety.
The sins were related to each other in the sense that they were all ultimately expressions of pride/vanity in a time where you could die at any moment and face God's judgement.
Though I do wonder how much of it is redundant from a lack of understanding (like how beavers were considered fish during times of lent) or if each one were intentionally overlapped and interrelated.
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean, but I'll answer the best I can with my understanding of greed and gluttony and their differences. Mind you, this is my own personal recollection from old lectures and readings.
Greed was kind of perceived as the acquisition of things that don't belong to you or things that you ultimately don't need to lead a pious life. That could have been money, land, food, etc. But that idea was that having those things and revering them instead of God was folly. Kinda saying God didn't give you enough by pursuing material possessions.
Gluttony was the idea of improper or excessive consumption. It wasn't usually depicted as aggressive as greed, but it was more closely associated with sloth. Someone who had the time and wealth to eat comfortably at their leisure. Drinking until drunkenness because you're not responsible or abdicating responsibility. I'm not sure about the tweet itself, but I could see interpretations that someone wealthy, like a lord who was responsible for the needs of the people on his land, was failing in his duties for the sake of earthly pleasures. If they're letting food go to waste in storage or withholding food as payment, those could be interpreted as gluttony if you're in charge of allocating food.
There were also ideas around fasting and getting around those conventions with wealth. Of course there were fewer punishments dolled out to the wealthy and religious figures had to be mindful of not making pointed accusations. So I think the messaging evolved more along the lines of personal responsibility like how we picture the Seven Deadly Sins today.
But they were all extensions of pride/vanity (from vanitas - nothingness). All of the actions were connected to the idea that the sins are pointless pursuits when God can decide your eternal afterlife. Pope Gregory was from the 600s AD but the sins came back into prominence in the 1300s when the plague was going on. I'm not sure if the popularity at the time was an attempt to get people back to work/church, or if it was sincere
Another name for lust was luxuria, and it focused more on the general idea of pursuing bodily pleasures.
All of the seven sins were just easy ways for the Pope Gregory to describe how certain behaviors can distract one from piety.
The sins were related to each other in the sense that they were all ultimately expressions of pride/vanity in a time where you could die at any moment and face God's judgement.
Though I do wonder how much of it is redundant from a lack of understanding (like how beavers were considered fish during times of lent) or if each one were intentionally overlapped and interrelated.
What of gluttony and greed then?
I'm sorry, but I'm not sure what you mean, but I'll answer the best I can with my understanding of greed and gluttony and their differences. Mind you, this is my own personal recollection from old lectures and readings.
Greed was kind of perceived as the acquisition of things that don't belong to you or things that you ultimately don't need to lead a pious life. That could have been money, land, food, etc. But that idea was that having those things and revering them instead of God was folly. Kinda saying God didn't give you enough by pursuing material possessions.
Gluttony was the idea of improper or excessive consumption. It wasn't usually depicted as aggressive as greed, but it was more closely associated with sloth. Someone who had the time and wealth to eat comfortably at their leisure. Drinking until drunkenness because you're not responsible or abdicating responsibility. I'm not sure about the tweet itself, but I could see interpretations that someone wealthy, like a lord who was responsible for the needs of the people on his land, was failing in his duties for the sake of earthly pleasures. If they're letting food go to waste in storage or withholding food as payment, those could be interpreted as gluttony if you're in charge of allocating food.
There were also ideas around fasting and getting around those conventions with wealth. Of course there were fewer punishments dolled out to the wealthy and religious figures had to be mindful of not making pointed accusations. So I think the messaging evolved more along the lines of personal responsibility like how we picture the Seven Deadly Sins today.
But they were all extensions of pride/vanity (from vanitas - nothingness). All of the actions were connected to the idea that the sins are pointless pursuits when God can decide your eternal afterlife. Pope Gregory was from the 600s AD but the sins came back into prominence in the 1300s when the plague was going on. I'm not sure if the popularity at the time was an attempt to get people back to work/church, or if it was sincere
Thanks for the explanation!