Sin and fear
Subtitle: the emergence of a Western guilt culture, 13th-18th centuries
By: Jean Delumeau ; translated by Eric Nicholson.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 677
Subjects: Sin -- Christianity -- History of doctrines; Theology -- History; Civilization, Modern; Renaissance
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [559]-657) and index.
Translation of: Le péché et la peur.