The History of Hell

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	p. 1
The Great Below	p. 5
The Egyptian Book of the Dead	p. 12
Zoroastrianism	p. 16
Classical Hades	p. 20
Platonic Hell	p. 30
The Roman Empire	p. 34
Sheol	p. 40
Gnosticism	p. 46
Manichaeism	p. 49
The Early Christians	p. 52
The Descent into Hell	p. 66
The Last Judgment	p. 71
Apocalyptic Tours of Hell	p. 83
The Middle Ages	p. 89
Mystery Plays	p. 114
Purgatory	p. 126
Dante's Inferno	p. 133
The High Middle Ages	p. 145
The Reformation	p. 158
Baroque Hell	p. 172
Paradise Lost	p. 177
The Mechanical Universe	p. 190
The Enlightenment	p. 199
Swedenborg's Vision	p. 210
The Nineteenth Century	p. 213
Goethe's Faust	p. 218
The Romantics	p. 221
Universalism	p. 233
The Age of Freud	p. 239
Acknowledgments	p. 244
Bibliography	p. 246
Photo Credits	p. 257
Index	p. 263
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