The History of HellFrom the beginning of recorded history people all over the world have believed in an afterlife with two principle destinations, and Hell has inspired more interest than Heaven, especially among painters and poets. This is an illustrated survey of how religious leaders, artists, writers and ordinary people in the West have visualized Hell. |
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User Review - Devil_llama - LibraryThingA look at the history of one of mankind's favorite obsessions. The author begins with pagan and other conceptions of hell, such as Zoroastrianism, and moves quickly toward the Jewish, then to the ... Read full review
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Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Great Below | 5 |
The Egyptian Book of the Dead | 12 |
Zoroastrianism | 16 |
Classical Hades | 20 |
Platonic Hell | 30 |
The Roman Empire | 34 |
Sheol | 40 |
The High Middle Ages | 145 |
The Reformation | 158 |
Baroque Hell | 172 |
Paradise Lost | 177 |
The Mechanical Universe | 190 |
The Enlightenment | 199 |
Swedenborgs Vision | 210 |
The Nineteenth Century | 213 |
Gnosticism | 46 |
Manichaeism | 49 |
The Early Christians | 52 |
The Descent into Hell | 66 |
The Last Judgment | 71 |
Apocalyptic Tours of Hell | 83 |
The Middle Ages | 89 |
Mystery Plays | 114 |
Purgatory | 126 |
Dantes Inferno | 133 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The History of Hell A Harvest book |
| Author | Alice K. Turner |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993 |
| ISBN | 0156001373, 9780156001373 |
| Length | 275 pages |
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