Title:
The Penguin book of Hell / edited by Scott G. Bruce.
Author:
Bruce, Scott G. (Scott Gordon), 1967- editor.
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
Call Number:
BL545 .P46 2018
Abstract:
"From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk--a monster with a thousand giant hands; wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture; and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles, and accounts of saints' lives, this fascinating volume of hellscapes illuminates how Hell has long haunted us, in both life and death."--Page 4 of cover.
ISBN:
9780143131625
Series:
Penguin classics
Penguin classics.
Physical Description:
xvi, 279 pages ; 20 cm.
Contents:
Introduction / by Scott G. Bruce -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- The Penguin book of hell. Realms Forbidden to the Living : Ancient Greece and Rome. Tartarus, prison of the Titans: from Hesiod's Theogony ; Netherworld megafauna: From Seneca's The Madness of Heracles ; Odysseus at death's door: From Homer's Odyssey ; Socrates ponders the punishment of souls: From Plato's Phaedo ; Into the realm of shadows: From Virgil's Aeneid -- Early Christian Hellscapes (c. 100-500 CE). The fire and the worm: From the Apocalypse of Paul ; The rich man and Lazarus: From the Gospel of Luke ; Death's defeat: The harrowing of hell: from the Gospel of Nicodemus -- On the Lip of the Abyss : The Early Middle Ages (c. 500-1000 CE). Beyond the black river: From the Dialogues of Gregory the Great ; Behold, the fire draws near me: From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People ; Dryhthelm returns from the dead: From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People ; The island of the fire giants:From The Voyages of Saint Brendan -- Into the Deepest Dark : The Vision of Tundale (c. 1150). Welcome to hell ; The punishment fits the crime ; The great below -- Teaching the Torments : The High Middle Ages (c. 1000-1300). Lessons in horror: From the Elucidarius of Honorius of Autun ; Preaching pain: From a medieval priest's manual ; Three tales of torment: From Caesarius's Dialogue on Miracles ; Warnings from beyond the grave: from Caesarius's Dialogue on Miracles ; The abominable fancy: From Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theological -- Abandon All Hope : Dante's Inferno (c. 1320). Through the gates of hell ; The filthy fen ; The boiling blood ; The forest of the suicides ; Trapped under ice -- A Heartbreaking Consort of Woes : Early Modern Afterlives (c. 1500-1700). The sharp pangs of a wounded conscience: From a sermon by William Dawes ; Into that eternal furnace: From Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti's Hell Opened to Christians to Caution Them from Entering into It ; A living death shall feed upon them: From John Bunyan's The Resurrection of the Dead and Eternall Judgement -- The Dread of Hell Peoples Heaven : The Nineteenth Century. Hell for children: From John Furniss's The Sight of Hell ; A place at odds with mercy: From Austin Holyoake's Heaven & Hell: Where Situated? -- Hell of Our Own Making : The Twentieth Century and Beyond. The death factories: From Vasily Grossman's "The Hell of Treblinka" ; Fire in the sky: From the "Testimony of Yoshitaka Kawamoto" ; The sum of suffering: from William Blake's "A Sentence Worse Than Death" ; Guantánamo mixtape: Music from American Detention Camps.
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