Hell and Its Rivals: Death and Retribution among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Early Middle Ages
Hell and its Rivals -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Foundations -- 1. Gregory the Great: Order in Chaos -- 2. Inner Death: Hell in the Conscience -- 3. The Punishments: Slavery, Torture, and Hell -- Part II. Alternatives to Hell -- 4. Exc...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
2017
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| In: | Year: 2017 |
| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
B Hell - Judaism - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500 |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: Bernstein, Alan E: Hell and Its Rivals : Death and Retribution among Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Early Middle Ages. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press,c2017. - 9781501707803 |
| Summary: | Hell and its Rivals -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I. Foundations -- 1. Gregory the Great: Order in Chaos -- 2. Inner Death: Hell in the Conscience -- 3. The Punishments: Slavery, Torture, and Hell -- Part II. Alternatives to Hell -- 4. Exceptions to Hell: Relief and Escape -- 5. Calibrated Justice and Purgatorial Fire -- 6. Visions: Rights to Souls -- Part III. Hell in Abrahamic Religions -- 7. Rabbinic Judaism: One Fire, Two Fates -- 8. Byzantine Universalism: The Path Not Taken -- 9. Islam: The Mockers Mocked -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (409 pages) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5017-1249-4 |
