Title:
The history of Hell / Alice K. Turner.
Author:
Turner, Alice K., author.
Genre:
Publication Information:
San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995.
Call Number:
BL545 .T87 1995
Abstract:
A survey of how, over the past 4,000 years, religious leaders, poets, painters, and ordinary people have visualized Hell--its location, architecture, furnishings, purpose, and inhabitants.
Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/har041/95018513.html
Edition:
First Harvest edition.
ISBN:
9780156001373
Series:
A Harvest book.
Harvest book.
Physical Description:
vi, 275 pages, [32] of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: 1st ed. ©1993.
Subject Term:
Contents:
The great below -- The Egyptian book of the dead -- Zoroastrianism -- Classical Hades -- Platonic hell -- The Roman Empire -- Sheol -- Gnosticism -- Manichaeism -- The early Christians -- The descent into hell -- The last judgment -- Apocalyptic tours of hell -- The Middle Ages -- Mystery plays -- Purgatory -- Dante's Inferno -- The High Middle Ages -- The Reformation -- Baroque hell -- Paradise lost -- The mechanical universe -- The enlightenment -- Swedenborg's vision -- The nineteenth century -- Goethe's Faust -- The romantics -- Universalism -- The age of Freud.
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