History of Hell

Name: History of Hell
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ISBN: 9780156001373

ISBN-10: 0156001373

ISBN-13: 9780156001373

Edition: 1993

Authors: Alice K. Turner, Donadio & Donadio & Olson

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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.

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 10/13/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

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Introduction



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


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Photo Credits


Index