{"product_id":"fear-of-hell-images-of-damnation-and-salvation-in-early-modern-europe-paperback-softback-9780745610313","title":"Fear of Hell; Images of Damnation and Salvation in Early Modern Europe (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745610313","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFear of Hell\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImages of Damnation and Salvation in Early Modern Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePiero Camporesi (Author), Lucinda Byatt (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745610313, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 17 January 2020\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e232 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e‘This is an immensely stimulating work, vivid, full of ideas, offering suggestions that go well beyond its stricter subject matter. All scholars and students concerned with the ways the psyche has been shaped by the material doctrines of Christianity will want to read this book.’\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eRoy Porter, formerly director of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine at University College, London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Fear of Hell\u003c\/i\u003e is a provocative study of two of the most powerful images in Christianity—hell and the eucharist. Drawing on the writings of Italian preachers and theologians of the Counter-Reformation, Piero Camporesi demonstrates the extraordinary power of the Baroque imagination to conjure up punishments, tortures, and the rewards of sin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCamporesi argues that hell was a very real part of everyday life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Preachers portrayed hell in images typical of common experience, comparing it to a great city, a hospital, a prison, etc.; the horror lay in the extremes to which these familiar images could be taken. The city of hell was not an ordinary city, but a filthy, stinking, and overcrowded place, an underworld ‘sewer’ overflowing with the refuse of decaying flesh and excrement—shocking but not beyond human imagination. What was most disturbing about this grotesque imagery was the realization by the people of the day that the punishment of afterlife was an extension of their daily experience in a fallen world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe eucharist, or host, represented corporeal salvation for early modern Christians and was therefore closely linked with the imagery of hell, the place of perpetual corporeal destruction. As the bread of life, the host possessed many miraculous powers of healing and sustenance, which made it precious to those in need. When received properly, the host was a source of health and life both in this world and in the world to come, though for those who ate the host unworthily there was the prospect of swift retribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten with style and imagination, \u003ci\u003eThe Fear of Hell\u003c\/i\u003e offers a vivid account of themes central to Christian culture, whose influence can still be found in our beliefs and customs today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eNote to the Reader \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I Hell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The House with Three Floors 3\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Doubtful Eternity 24\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Scruples and \"Counterfeit Chimeras\" 41\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The \"Unhappy Country\" 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Foul Smelling Drains\" 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The Laughing God 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 From the Heart of the Earth to the Sun 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The \"Soft Life\" and \"Weak Sinners\" 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II The Host\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Stolen Ciborium 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 The \"Stupendous Excess\" 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The Mysterious Food 146\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 In the Pit of the Stomach 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 The Horror of the Guts 182\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 215\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52475065499928,"sku":"9780745610313","price":15.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745610313.jpg?v=1785803980","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fear-of-hell-images-of-damnation-and-salvation-in-early-modern-europe-paperback-softback-9780745610313","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}