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by: Jean Delumeau, Matthew O'Connell
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 236
EAN: 9780252068805
ISBN: 0252068807
Label: University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer: University of Illinois Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: April 20, 2000
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Sales Rank: 421662
Studio: University of Illinois Press
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Delumeau has devoted his lifework to understanding the fears that have beset the Western mind, particularly since the medieval period. The History Of Paradise continues this questioning, telling the story of how the Western mind from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period conceived the meaning and place of primordial bliss. Illustrations.
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Rating:  - Paradise revisited
In this day and age of critical theory and revisionist history, it is refreshing to have a strong, document based, historicist's account of a concept such as 'paradise'. Regretfully today the idea 'paradise' has become either an almost empty platitude for the tourist industry,and other commercial commoditities or some type of incomprehensible 'carrot' for the suicide martyr.
Delumeau is able to demonstrate the evolution of the concept and today's deconstruction of paradise through ... Read More
Rating:  - Man's "search" for Eden
The author's original work is in French and has been ably translated into English. He covers various attempts though the ages by Christians, primarily, _to locate_ the "garden of Eden." This book's "usefulness" is in its comprehensive coverage of various authors up to about the time of the Enlightenment (18th century AD). Towards the end of his book he concludes Eden "is a myth" and gives his reasons for this position. His "bibliography" of sources consulted _is impressive_ and should be useful to ... Read More
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