The Penguin Book of Hell
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From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, this book takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. Drawing upon religious poetry, epics, theological treatises, stories of miracles, and...
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From the Hebrew Bible's shadowy realm of Sheol to twenty-first-century visions of Hell on earth, this book takes us through three thousand years of eternal damnation. 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.
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"From the Bible through Dante and up to Treblinka and Guantánamo Bay, here is a rich source for nightmares." --The New York Times Book ReviewThree thousand years of visions of Hell, from the ancient Near East to modern America
A Penguin Classic
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, in which gluttons, liars, heretics, murderers, and hypocrites are made to endure crime-appropriate torture; 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.
For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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ContentsRealms Forbidden to the Living: Ancient Greece and Rome
Tartarus, Prison of the Titans: From Hesiod s Theogony
Netherworld Megafauna: From Seneca s The Madness of Heracles
Odysseus at Death s Door: From Homer s Odyssey
Socrates Ponders the Punishment of Souls: From Plato s Phaedo
Into the Realm of Shadows: From Virgil s Aeneid
Early Christian Hellscapes (c. 100 500 CE)
The Fire and the Worm: From the Apocalypse of Paul
The Rich Man and Lazarus: From the Gospel of Luke
Death s Defeat: The Harrowing of Hell from the Gospel of Nicodemus
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
Behold, the Fire Draws Near Me: From Bede s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Dryhthelm Returns from the Dead: From Bede s Ecclesiastical History of the English People
The Island of the Fire Giants: From The Voyage of Saint Brendan
Into the Deepest Dark: The Vision of Tundale (c. 1150)
Welcome to Hell
The Punishment Fits the Crime
The Great Below
Teaching the Torments: The High Middle Ages (c. 1000 1300)
Lessons in Horror: From the Elucidarium of Honorius of Autun
Preaching Pain: From a Medieval Priest s Manual
Three Tales of Torment: From Caesarius Dialogue on Miracles
Warnings from Beyond the Grave: From Caesarius Dialogue on Miracles
The Abominable Fancy: From Thomas Aquinas s Summa Theologica
Abandon All Hope: Dante s Inferno (c. 1320)
Through the Gates of Hell
The Filthy Fen
The Boiling Blood
The Forest of the Suicides
Trapped Under Ice
A Heartbreaking Consort of Woes: Early Modern Afterlives (c. 1500 1700)
The Sharp Pangs of a Wounded Conscience: From a Sermon by William Dawes
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That Eternal Furnace: From Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti s Hell Opened to Christians to Caution Them from Entering into It
A Living Death Shall Feed Upon Them: From John Bunyan s The Resurrection of the Dead and Eternall Judgement
The Dread of Hell Peoples Heaven: The Nineteenth Century
Hell Is for Children: From John Furniss The Sight of Hell
A Place at Odds with Mercy: From Austin Holyoake s Heaven & Hell: Where Situated?
Hell of Our Own Making: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
The Death Factories: From Vasily Grossman s The Hell of Treblinka
Fire in the Sky: From the Testimony of Yoshitaka Kawamoto
The Sum of Suffering: From William Blake s A Sentence Worse Than Death
Guantánamo Mixtape: Music from American Detention Camps
Introduction
Hell, the punitive afterlife of the Christian religion, is arguably the most powerful and persuasive construct of the human imagination in the Western tradition. A subterranean realm of eternal suffering, a prison for sinful souls governed by a fallen angel who surpassed all other creatures in wickedness, Hell has inspired fear and thereby controlled the behavior of countless human beings for more than two thousand years. Despite advances in scholarship that have called
A Living Death Shall Feed Upon Them: From John Bunyan s The Resurrection of the Dead and Eternall Judgement
The Dread of Hell Peoples Heaven: The Nineteenth Century
Hell Is for Children: From John Furniss The Sight of Hell
A Place at Odds with Mercy: From Austin Holyoake s Heaven & Hell: Where Situated?
Hell of Our Own Making: The Twentieth Century and Beyond
The Death Factories: From Vasily Grossman s The Hell of Treblinka
Fire in the Sky: From the Testimony of Yoshitaka Kawamoto
The Sum of Suffering: From William Blake s A Sentence Worse Than Death
Guantánamo Mixtape: Music from American Detention Camps
Introduction
Hell, the punitive afterlife of the Christian religion, is arguably the most powerful and persuasive construct of the human imagination in the Western tradition. A subterranean realm of eternal suffering, a prison for sinful souls governed by a fallen angel who surpassed all other creatures in wickedness, Hell has inspired fear and thereby controlled the behavior of countless human beings for more than two thousand years. Despite advances in scholarship that have called
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Autoren-Porträt von Scott G. Bruce
Scott G. Bruce (editor) is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Undead, The Penguin Book of Dragons, and The Penguin Book of Demons, and the author of three books about the abbey of Cluny. He is a professor of history at Fordham University in New York City. He worked his way through college as a grave digger.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Scott G. Bruce
- 2018, 304 Seiten, Maße: 12,9 x 19,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin US
- ISBN-10: 0143131621
- ISBN-13: 9780143131625
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.10.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Now that I know what Hell is like, I shall take more pains to avoid it. This is an amazing collection. Philip Pullman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Golden CompassQuite terrifying. The New Yorker
You will be [frightened] by The Penguin Book of Hell, in which writers from antiquity to the 20th century describe the eternal, infernal hereafter. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. The Washington Post
This fascinating collection kept me reading long after midnight, and the images it put in my head kept me up even longer. A deeply engaging read. Amy Brady, Chicago Review of Books, The Best Horror Nonfiction Books of 2018
One of the prime motives of these texts is rage, rage against people occupying positions of exceptional trust and power who lie and cheat and trample on the most basic values and yet who escape the punishment they so manifestly deserve. History is an unending chronicle of such knaves, and it is a chronicle too of frustration and impotence, certainly among the mass of ordinary people but even among those who feel that they are stakeholders in the system. Hell is the last recourse of political impotence. You console yourself . . . by imagining that the loathsome characters you detest will meet their comeuppance in the afterlife. Stephen Greenblatt, The New York Review of Books
Disturbing . . . Full of classic representations of eternal punishment. America: The Jesuit Review
Harrowing . . . To recognize hell in the realm of reality is to understand its true role in our lives right now and to begin to articulate the good life we hope someday to earn. Be not distracted: the glimpses of hell do us good. Lapham s Quarterly
Includes a hefty (and fascinating) selection of readings from medieval manuals . . . Bruce s most fascinating section is his final, which examines how the rhetoric of hell has utility in the contemporary era, including . . . an astounding
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essay by an American prisoner in solitary confinement with the unlikely name of William Blake, and the track list for torturers at the Guantánamo Bay detention center whose enhanced interrogation techniques included repeatedly blasting at ear-splitting decibels songs like Marilyn Manson s The Beautiful People, Britney Spears s Baby One More Time, and the Meow Mix commercial jingle. Los Angeles Review of Books
Like so many of the Penguin Classics collections, it is thoughtful, expansive, accessible to the intelligent reader and the inquiring mind. . . . It s quite a read, and it s certainly not something you probably want to read right before bedtime, not right before going to sleep, but certainly a book that will make you think about life, about being human, and about what might await us in the future. WBAA
Like so many of the Penguin Classics collections, it is thoughtful, expansive, accessible to the intelligent reader and the inquiring mind. . . . It s quite a read, and it s certainly not something you probably want to read right before bedtime, not right before going to sleep, but certainly a book that will make you think about life, about being human, and about what might await us in the future. WBAA
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