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Authors: Alice K. Turner, Donadio & Olson
ISBN-13: 9780156001373, ISBN-10: 0156001373
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: October 1995
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Alice K. Turner

Book Synopsis

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.

	Introduction	1
1	The Great Below	5
2	The Egyptian Book of the Dead	12
3	Zoroastrianism	16
4	Classical Hades	20
5	Platonic Hell	30
6	The Roman Empire	34
7	Sheol	40
8	Gnosticism	46
9	Manichaeism	49
10	The Early Christians	52
11	The Descent into Hell	66
12	The Last Judgment	71
13	Apocalyptic Tours of Hell	83
14	The Middle Ages	89
15	Mystery Plays	114
16	Purgatory	126
17	Dante's Inferno	133
18	The High Middle Ages	145
19	The Reformation	158
20	Baroque Hell	172
21	Paradise Lost	177
22	The Mechanical Universe	190
23	The Enlightenment	199
24	Swedenborg's Vision	210
25	The Nineteenth Century	213
26	Goethe's Faust	218
27	The Romantics	221
28	Universalism	233
29	The Age of Freud	239
	Acknowledgments	244
	Bibliography	246
	Photo Credits	257
	Index	263

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