Explores the conviction that paradise existed in a precise although unreachable earthly location. Delving into the writings of dozens of medieval and Renaissance thinkers, from Augustine to Dante, this title presents a study of the meaning of Original Sin and the human yearning for paradise.

History of Paradise: THE GARDEN OF EDEN IN MYTH AND TRADITION

Delumeau, Jean

O'Connell, Matthew

Religion & Spirituality

University of Illinois Press

Discusses Christian-based fears surrounding sin, death, and the soul's immortality, from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries

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

Religious Studies

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

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

St Martins Pr

Catholicism Between Luther and Voltaire: A New View of the Counter-Reformation

Westminster John Knox Pr

"We hold Christ's cross and Adam's tree to be in one place," wrote John Donne, speaking of the location of the Garden of Eden. Milton thought it "below the Ethiope line" (the equator). And every schoolchild once knew it was at the summit of Dante's "seven storey mountain" of the Purgatorio. Not only the location of the "earthly paradise" but its significance, historical and theological, preoccupied the collective mind and imagination of Europe for at least fifteen-hundred years. Jean Delumeau has devoted himself to understanding the fears that have beset Western thinkers, particularly since the medieval period: how they arose, whether from nature, other human beings, or from some other world. This History of Paradise continues the questioning, telling the story of how the Western mind from the late middle ages to the early modern period conceived the meaning and the place of primordial bliss. It tells of exploratory journeys to the Kingdom of Prester John, of the search for "the happy isles," and of the gradual disillusionment (or enlightenment) that led to the transformation of the notion of a physical Garden of Eden to a metaphysical "state of nature."

History of Paradise: The Garden of Eden in Myth and Tradition

Continuum Intl Pub Group

Catholicism Between Luther and Voltaire: New View of the Counter-reformation

Burns & Oates Ltd.

Conversations About the End of Time

Four intellectuals and scientists--Stephen Jay Gould, Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude CarriFre, and Jean Delumeau--share their reflections on millennial conciousness, probing the origins of apocalyptic fascination, prehistoric cataclysms like the extinction of the dinosaurs, and religious views on the subject.

Literature & Fiction

Gould, Stephen Jay.

ECO,UMBERTO

CARRIERE,JEAN-CLAUDE

History & Criticism

Fromm Intl

Four intellectuals and scientists--Stephen Jay Gould, Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude CarriFre, and Jean Delumeau--share their reflections on millennial conciousness, probing the origins of apocalyptic fascination, prehistoric cataclysms like the extinction of the dinosaurs, and religious views on the subject. Reprint.

World Literature

Rome au XVIe siècle

History

Europe

PLURIEL

La Plus Belle Histoire du bonheur

Farge, Arlette

Comte-Sponville, André

Contemporary

SEUIL

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