The Fear Of Hell Paper by Camporesi


Authors
Camporesi
ISBN
9780745610313
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
232
Dimensions
152 x 227 x 179mm

The Fear of Hell is a provocative study of two of the most powerful images in Christianity/dash;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.

Camporesi 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 lsquo;sewer
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