The Penguin book of hell / edited by Scott G. Bruce.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bruce, Scott G. (Scott Gordon), 1967- editor.

Series:

Penguin classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Future life.

Hell.

Physical Description:

xvi, 279 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]

Contents:

The Penguin Book Of Hell

Realms Forbidden to the Living: Ancient Greece and Rome

Tartarus, Prison of the Titans: From Hesiod's Theogony p. 7

Netherworld Megafauna: From Seneca's The Madness of Heracles p. 12

Odysseus at Death's Door: From Homer's Odyssey p. 15

Socrates Ponders the Punishment of Souls: From Plato's Phaedo p. 19

Into the Realm of Shadows: From Virgil's Aeneid p. 22

Early Christian Hellscapes (c. 100-500 ce)

The Fire and the Worm: From the Apocalypse of Paul p. 37

The Rich Man and Lazarus: From the Gospel of Luke p. 45

Death's Defeat: The Harrowing of Hell from the Gospel of Nicodemus p. 47

On the Lip of the Abyss: The Early Middle Ages (c. 500-1000 ce)

Beyond the Black River: From the Dialogues of Gregory the Great p. 61

Behold, the Fire Draws Near Me: From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People p. 65

Dryhthelm Returns from the Dead: From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People p. 68

The Island of the Fire Giants: From The Voyage of Saint Brendan p. 75

Into the Deepest Dark: The Vision of Tundale (c. 1150)

Welcome to Hell p. 85

The Punishment Fits the Crime p. 88

The Great Below p. 102

Teaching the Torments: The High Middle Ages (c. 1000-1300)

Lessons in Horror: From the Elucidarius of Honorius of Autun p. 113

Preaching Pain: From a Medieval Priest's Manual p. 115

Three Tales of Torment: From Caesarius's Dialogue on Miracles p. 118

Warnings from Beyond the Grave: From Caesarius's Dialogue on Miracles p. 125

The Abominable Fancy: From Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica p. 130

Abandon All Hope: Dante's Inferno (c. 1320)

Through the Gates of Hell p. 141

The Filthy Fen p. 147

The Boiling Blood p. 149

The Forest of the Suicides p. 155

Trapped Under Ice p. 161

A Heartbreaking Consort of Woes: Early Modern Afterlives (c. 1500-1700)

The Sharp Pangs of a Wounded Conscience: From a Sermon by William Dawes p. 171

Into That Eternal Furnace: From Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti's Hell Opened to Christians to Caution Them from Entering into It p. 179

A Living Death Shall Feed upon Them: From John Bunyan's The Resurrection of the Dead and Eternall Judgement p. 193

The Dread of Hell Peoples Heaven: The Nineteenth Century

Hell for Children: From John Furniss's The Sight of Hell p. 201

A Place at Odds with Mercy: From Austin Holyoake's Heaven & Hell: Where Situated? p. 222

Hell of Our Own Making: The Twentieth Century and Beyond

The Death Factories: From Vasily Grossman's "The Hell of Treblinka" p. 233

Fire in the Sky: From the "Testimony of Yoshitaka Kawamoto" p. 240

The Sum of Suffering: From William Blake's "A Sentence Worse Than Death" p. 244

Guantánamo Mixtape: Music from American Detention Camps p. 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Penguin book of hell

ISBN:

9780143131625

0143131621

OCLC:

1022198990