Robert Muchembled was born in the city of Lleven, which is located in northern France on March 4, 1944. Since childhood, he was interested in history and by 1985 already had the title of professor and PhD for his dissertation on the topic “Violence and society”.
His research covers the period between 1400 and 1789 and focuses mainly on problems related to witchcraft in the Middle Ages. Why was the devil so active at this time? Why was the witch hunt so important? These and other questions Muschemble
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Robert Muchembled was born in the city of Lleven, which is located in northern France on March 4, 1944. Since childhood, he was interested in history and by 1985 already had the title of professor and PhD for his dissertation on the topic “Violence and society”.
His research covers the period between 1400 and 1789 and focuses mainly on problems related to witchcraft in the Middle Ages. Why was the devil so active at this time? Why was the witch hunt so important? These and other questions Muschemble tried to answer in his works.
Essays on the History of the Devil is devoted to the role of the devil in the consciousness of Western man. The historian believes that Satan openly broke into human life sometime in the 12th century and continues to rule the ball to the present day. But the interests of God and the Devil were not always in conflict. The pacification of chaos on earth and the establishment of a relative balance of good and evil made the Devil sometimes act at the behest of God and obey him.
Robert Muschemble, Orgasm, or Love Pleasures in the West. The history of pleasure from the XVI century to the present day is devoted to the study of the development of sexual culture of Western society, as well as its role in religious and political events.
In addition, Muschemble explored many historical aspects in such works as:
"Folk culture and elite culture in modern France", "Prophets and sorcerers in the Netherlands", "Witch in the countryside", "Witches, justice and society in the sixteenth - seventeenth century", "Invention of modern man". Sensitivity, mores and collective behavior in the old regime, etc.
