| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
vi, 275 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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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| Added Author |
Delattre, Pierre, 1930-
Pull of the Pit.
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| ISBN |
015140934X |
|
9780151409341 |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 105293407 |
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NZ1 4428517 |
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AU@ 000009955804 |
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