Medieval and Renaissance Visions of Hell

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Medieval and Renaissance Visions of Hell

• Prof. David A. Salomon
• davidsalomon_at_bhsu.edu

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9th century Harrowing of Hell, England
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The Verduner Altar, c. 1180
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Petites Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry, BNF Lat
18104 Pet., 14th century
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Estruplund. c.1542. Harrowing of Hell. Sect 2,
south arch.
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Maps of Dantes Hell
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Gustave Dores illustration for Canto 3
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From William Blakes illustrations for Dantes
Inferno
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Detail of a stained glass window
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The Geocentric Model
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Copernicus De Revolutionibus orbium, 1543
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Artists Reconstruction of the Globe
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Detail of Globe Stage Floor
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Artists Reconstruction of Globe Stage Ceiling
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The stage (ceiling) of the new Globe Theater
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From the Winchester Psalter
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Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621
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Title page of Galileos Dialogus De Systemate
Mundi, 1641
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Me miserable! Which way shall I flyInfinite
wrath, and infinite despair?Which way I fly is
Hell myself am HellAnd in the lowest deep a
lower deepStill threatning to devour me opens
wide,To which the Hell I suffer seems a
Heavn Paradise Lost 4.73-79
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It it be now, tis not to come if it be to come,
it will be now if it be not now, yet it will
come. The readiness is all.
Hamlet 5.2.216-217
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They sat them down to weep, not only TearsRaind
at thir Eyes, but high Winds worse withinBegan
to rise, high Passions, Anger, Hate,Mistrust,
Suspicion, Discord, and shook soreThir inward
State of Mind, calm Region onceAnd full of
Peace, now tosst and turbulent Paradise Lost
9.1121-1126
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Thus Adam to himself lamented loudThrough the
still Night, not now, as ere man fell,Wholesome
and cool and mild, but with black
AirAccompanied, with damps and dreadful
gloom,Which to his evil Conscience
representedAll things with double terror. On the
groundOutstretcht he lay, on the cold ground,
and oftCursd his Creation, Death as oft
accusdOf tardy execution, since denounctThe
day of his offense. Paradise Lost 10.845-853
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Peter Iselburg, Emblemata Politica, 1620s
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Pop Culture Appropriations of Devils and Angels