The History of Hell

A Survey Of How, Over The Past 4,000 Years, Religious Leaders, Poets, Painters, And Ordinary People Have Visualized Hell--its Location, Architecture, Furnishings, Purpose, And Inhabitants.--inside Cover. 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. Alice K. Turner. A Duplicate Copy Of This Title Was Part Of The Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, But Was Not Retained. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 246-255) And Index.