Visions of Heaven and Hell
Book Details
Author(s)
Richard Cavendish
Publisher
Harmony Books
ISBN / ASIN
051753097X
ISBN-13
9780517530979
Category
Hardcover
Marketplace
France 🇫🇷
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Description
From the miseries of Dante's 'Inferno' to the eternal feasting and bloodletting of Valhalla, 'Visions of Heaven and Hell' deals graphically with the extraordinary beliefs which have regulated the morals of societies through the centuries.
Islamic, Buddhist, Judaic and Christian teachings have all threatened wrongdoers with the torments of a fiery hell, while visions of heaven range from the austere spirituality of St. Augustine to the erotic delights of the Muslim paradise.
Included are 125 unusual illustrations, many in full color, bringing vivid and revealing detail to ideas of eternal life. This extraordinary array of imagery, imagination and fantasy illuminates man's constant obsession with the question of reward and punishment in the hereafter.
The author, Richard Cavendish, is a well-known authority on magic, occultism and popular beliefs about the supernatural.
Islamic, Buddhist, Judaic and Christian teachings have all threatened wrongdoers with the torments of a fiery hell, while visions of heaven range from the austere spirituality of St. Augustine to the erotic delights of the Muslim paradise.
Included are 125 unusual illustrations, many in full color, bringing vivid and revealing detail to ideas of eternal life. This extraordinary array of imagery, imagination and fantasy illuminates man's constant obsession with the question of reward and punishment in the hereafter.
The author, Richard Cavendish, is a well-known authority on magic, occultism and popular beliefs about the supernatural.
