Bibliograph

The history of hell, Alice K. Turner

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The history of hell, Alice K. Turner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-255) and index

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mapsplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The history of hell

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

27813633

Responsibility statement

Alice K. Turner

Table Of 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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