Sin and Fear: The Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture, 13th-18th Centuries
by Jean Delumeau
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On the dust jacket of "Sin and Fear" is a detail of the Bosch painting in which men and women in their baptismal suits are disporting themselves about a garden of earthly delights. Whether the ladies and gentlemen are enjoying lust, or just a bit of artistic luck, is not quite clear, but it does serve as an appropriate introduction to sin and fear and guilt, at least in the 15th Century.Tags
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- Sin and Fear: The Emergence of a Western Guilt Culture, 13th-18th Centuries
- Original title
- Le péché et la peur : la culpabilisation en Occident, XIIIe-XVIIIe siècles
- Original publication date
- 1983
- Original language
- French
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