Jean Delumeau
French historian of religion and the history of mentalities, known for studies on fear, sin, and the Catholic Reformation; professor at the Collège de France and author of works such as La Peur en Occident and Le Catholicisme entre Luther et Voltaire.
Books
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1. La Peur En Occident, Xi Ve Xvii Ie Siècles
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A cultural and psychological history of collective anxieties in Western Europe from the medieval to early modern period, examining how plague, war, famine, demonic threats, witchcraft, and apocalyptic expectations permeated everyday life, morality, and governance. Drawing on sermons, images, and pastoral literature, it shows how religious authorities cultivated guilt and fear as tools of social discipline, while also tracing gradual shifts in sensibilities that began to mitigate these fears on the threshold of modernity.
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