Self-Help from the Middle Ages

From medieval historian Peter Jones comes a groundbreaking guide to navigating contemporary life through the wisdom of the Seven Deadly Sins Watching the snow from his apartment window in Siberia, Peter Jones could only describe his feeling as coldness—both physically and emotionally. He knew modern psychology would define his malaise as depression, but as a professor of medieval history, he also knew there was a time when people described these struggles in very different terms. He turned to th