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Examines Hell and the Eucharist, the images and representations of salvation and perdition. The author draws on the preachers of the Counter-Reformation to show how the idea of Hell evolved. He counterpoises this with a description of the mystical virtues with which the Host was invested.

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∗ A brilliant and highly original attempt to reconstruct the imaginative world of ordinary people - peasants, beggars, the poor - in early modern Europe. ∗ Camporesi shows that some food, like bread had intoxicating qualities, so that people were literally drugged by the food they ate.

This is a concise and elegant account of the eating and drinking habits of the upper classes in the eighteenth century.