Little Sermons on Sin

The Archpriest of Talavera

Alfonso Martínez de Toledo

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9780520334694
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This title was originally published in 1959.
This title was originally published in 1959.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Prologue
• CHAPTER ONE How he who madly loves is displeasing to God
• CHAPTER TWO How he who loves his neighbor's wife offends God, himself, and his neighbor
• CHAPTER THREE How love is the cause of death, violence, and war
• CHAPTER FOUR How he who loves is in his loving altogether fearful
• CHAPTER FIVE How he who loves hates his father and mother, his kin and friends
• CHAPTER SIX How lovers, loving, lose the respect of others
• CHAPTER SEVEN How many go mad from loving
• CHAPTER EIGHT How chastity and continence are noble virtues in God’s creatures
• CHAPTER NINE How love causes many to perjure themselves and commit crimes
• CHAPTER TEN How the greater a man's ardor in lechery is, the greater is his repentance once it is accomplished
• CHAPTER ELEVEN How the priest and even the layman are destroyed by love
• CHAPTER TWELVE HOW he who loves is diligent in nothing but his love
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN Of the evil thoughts that come to him who loves
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN How love is the cause of deaths and other evils
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN How marriages are destroyed by love
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN How he who gives himself to lechery loses his strength
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN How the learned lose their learning through love
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN How a woman’s love is full of deceit
• CHAPTER NINETEEN How he who madly loves trangresses the Ten Commandments
• CHAPTER TWENTY HOW he who madly loves breaks the First Commandment
• CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Of the Second Commandment
• CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Of the Third Commandment
• CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Of the Fourth Commandment
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Of the Fifth Commandment
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Of the Sixth Commandment
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Of the Seventh Commandment
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN Of the Eighth Commandment
• CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT Of the Ninth Commandment
• CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Of the Tenth Commandment
• CHAPTER THIRTY Of the first deadly sin
• CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE Of the second deadly sin
• CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Of the third deadly sin
• CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE Of the fourth deadly sin
• CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR Of the fifth deadly sin
• CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE Of the sixth deadly sin
• CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX Of the seventh deadly sin
• CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN How he who loves loses all the virtues
• CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT Conclusion: How all evils proceed from love
• CHAPTER ONE Of the vices, blemishes, and evil ways of perverse women, and first I shall speak of avarice
• CHAPTER TWO How woman is a gossip and a backbiter
• CHAPTER THREE How women, because of their cupidity, love all comers
• CHAPTER FOUR How woman is envious of all more beautiful than she
• CHAPTER FIVE How woman's constancy depends upon what you give her
• CHAPTER SIX How woman is two-faced
• CHAPTER SEVEN Of disobedience in wives
• CHAPTER EIGHT How proud woman cares not what she says or does
• CHAPTER NINE How woman is given to windy boastfulness
• CHAPTER TEN How woman perjures herself falsely swearing
• CHAPTER ELEVEN How a man should be on his guard against a drunken woman
• CHAPTER TWELVE How a chattering woman always talks about the affairs of others
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN How women love any man they please, of whatever age
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN How the only wisdom is to love God, and all else is folly
• CHAPTER ONE Of the complexions
• CHAPTER TWO Of the sanguine man
• CHAPTER THREE Of the choleric man
• CHAPTER FOUR Of the phlegmatic man
• CHAPTER FIVE Of the melancholy man
• CHAPTER SIX How the signs influence the parts of the body
• CHAPTER SEVEN Of the attributes of the sanguine man
• CHAPTER EIGHT Of the choleric man: what qualities he has for loving and being loved
• CHAPTER NINE Of the melancholy man: how he is given to quarreling
• CHAPTER TEN Of the phlegmatic man: his qualities for loving or being loved
• CHAPTER ELEVEN Of matrimony
• Notes
• Bibliography