The Penguin Book of Hell -

The Penguin Book of Hell

Scott G. Bruce (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2019
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-313162-5 (ISBN)
14,95 inkl. MwSt
Journey into the underworld through three thousand years of visions of hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America

From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, The Penguin Book of Hell takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Along the way, you'll take a ferry ride with Aeneas to Hades, across the river Acheron; meet the Devil as imagined by a twelfth-century Irish monk - a monster with a thousand giant hands; wander the nine circles of Hell in Dante's Inferno and witness the debates that raged in Victorian England when new scientific advances cast doubt on the idea of an eternal hereafter. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles and accounts of saints' lives, this fascinating volume of hellscapes illuminates how Hell has long haunted us, in both life and death.

Scott G. Bruce is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Undead and The Penguin Book of Hell, and the author of three books about the Abbey of Cluny. He is a professor of medieval history at Fordham University in New York City. He worked his way through college as a gravedigger.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 128 x 197 mm
Gewicht 238 g
Themenwelt Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Weitere Religionen
ISBN-10 0-14-313162-1 / 0143131621
ISBN-13 978-0-14-313162-5 / 9780143131625
Zustand Neuware
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