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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Съдържание
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 | 211 |
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 | 90 |
Purgatory | 126 |
Dantes Inferno | 133 |
Goethes Faust | 218 |
The Romantics | 221 |
Universalism | 233 |
The Age of Freud | 241 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 244 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 246 |
PHOTO CREDITS | 257 |
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| Заглавие | The History of Hell A Harvest book |
| Автор | Alice K. Turner |
| Издание | илюстрирано, ново |
| Издател | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995 |
| ISBN | 0156001373, 9780156001373 |
| Брой страници | 275 страници |
| Експортиране на описанието | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |