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In the spirit of the great academic works of the past century such as Jérôme Baschet's monumental work on the Justices of the Beyond, this transversal study aims to offer an in-depth reading of the visual cultures of the Medieval and Modern Times. Crossing several artistic corpora, the book seeks to explore the way of thinking and behaving of individuals and groups in ancient societies, in a mise en abyme of the relationship of men to morality, to sin and to self-alienation in the face of the possibilities of "making community". Exhibiting striking artefacts, unpublished for the general public but connecting them with better-known works of art, this study tries and widens the keys to access academic knowledge by explaining the functioning and behaviour of “people” during the Middle Ages, while unmasking the artistic heritage accessible in our countries.