| Edition |
First Harvest edition. |
| Description |
vi, 275 pages, [32] of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
A Harvest book
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| 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. |
| Note |
Originally published: 1st ed. c1993. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 246-255) and index |
| Subject |
Hell -- Comparative studies.
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| ISBN |
0156001373 |
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