La Peur En Occident, Xi Ve Xvii Ie Siècles by Jean Delumeau
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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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- Published
- 1978
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Long
- Pages
- 500-600
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- El miedo en Occidente
- La paura in Occidente
- O medo no Ocidente
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