The History of Hell
by Turner, Alice K.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-09-01
Publisher(s): Houghton Miff
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Summary
A "lively...generously illustrated" (Washington Post Book World) survey of how, over the past four thousand years, religious leaders, artists, writers, and ordinary people in the West have visualized Hell-its location, architecture, purpose, and inhabitants. Illustrations; full-color inserts.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Great Below | p. 5 |
| The Egyptian Book of the Dead | p. 12 |
| Zoroastrianism | p. 16 |
| Classical Hades | p. 20 |
| Platonic Hell | p. 30 |
| The Roman Empire | p. 34 |
| Sheol | p. 40 |
| Gnosticism | p. 46 |
| Manichaeism | p. 49 |
| The Early Christians | p. 52 |
| The Descent into Hell | p. 66 |
| The Last Judgment | p. 71 |
| Apocalyptic Tours of Hell | p. 83 |
| The Middle Ages | p. 89 |
| Mystery Plays | p. 114 |
| Purgatory | p. 126 |
| Dante's Inferno | p. 133 |
| The High Middle Ages | p. 145 |
| The Reformation | p. 158 |
| Baroque Hell | p. 172 |
| Paradise Lost | p. 177 |
| The Mechanical Universe | p. 190 |
| The Enlightenment | p. 199 |
| Swedenborg's Vision | p. 210 |
| The Nineteenth Century | p. 213 |
| Goethe's Faust | p. 218 |
| The Romantics | p. 221 |
| Universalism | p. 233 |
| The Age of Freud | p. 239 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 244 |
| Bibliography | p. 246 |
| Photo Credits | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 263 |
| Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved. |
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