Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
vi, 275 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-255) and index. |
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. |
Subject |
Hell -- Comparative studies.
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ISBN |
015140934X |
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9780151409341 |
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