Sin and Fear: The Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture, 13th-18th Centuries

by Jean Delumeau

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312035829
• ISBN13: 9780312035822
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 677 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Magisterial analysis.

This book is as impressive as a picture of Hieronymus Bosch.It is a gripping portrait: plague, famine, the Big Schism, a Turkish advance. The power elite of the Church and the State are in danger. They are looking for scapegoats, like women (witches), Christian sects (e.g. the Bundschuh), jews and muslims, and for a revival of the Christian message through writings and sermons about the Antichrist or the Last Judgment.A very broad panorama containing eschatology, witch-hunt (Malleus maleficarum), dreams, behaviour of ordinary people during plagues, wars or famine, mutinies, staples and a big gap between the haves and the have-nots.A masterpiece.Monumental bibliography.