Hellish Imaginations from Augustine to Dante
An Essay in Metaphor and Materiality
Medieval literature and art abounds in descriptions of grotesque torments (punitive in hell, redemptive in purgatory) being meted out to the unhappy dead. But how can pain be experienced in the absence of the body? Can the main agents of suffering specified in Old Testament prophecies, fire and the worm, actually trouble a disembodied soul? The relative merits of material and metaphorical understandings of the economy of pain were debated throughout the Middle Ages, and extended far beyond, surviving the abolition of purgatory within Protestantism. This book brings to life many of the intellectual clashes, beginning with Augustine's foundatio…
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- ISBN: 978-0-907570-51-6
- EAN: 9780907570516
- Produktnummer: 35076313
- Verlag: Medium Aevum Monographs / SSMLL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 290 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D1.7 cm 401 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 401
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