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The Penguin book of hell / edited by Scott G. Bruce.

The Penguin book of hell / edited by Scott G. Bruce.
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ISBN 9780143131625 (paperback)
Title The Penguin book of hell / edited by Scott G. Bruce.
Published New York, New York : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
©2018
Description xvi, 279 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Bruce, Scott, G. -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Realms Forbidden to the Living: Ancient Greece and Rome -- Early Christian Hellscapes (c. 100-500 CE) -- On the Lip of the Abyss: The Early Middle Ages (c. 500-1000 CE) -- Into the Deepest Dark: The Vision of Tundale (c. 1150) -- Teaching the Torments: The High Middle Ages (c. 1000-1300) -- Abandon All Hope: Dante's Inferno (c. 1320) -- A Heartbreaking Consort of Woes: Early Modern Afterlives (c. 1500-1700) -- The Dread of Hell Peoples Heaven: The Nineteenth Century -- Hell of Our Own Making: The Twentieth Century and Beyond.
Summary 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 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.
Subjects Future life
Hell
Other Names Bruce, Scott G. (Scott Gordon), 1967- editor.
Series Penguin classics
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