A contribution to the comparative study of the medieval visions of heaven and hell
Subtitle: with special reference to the Middle-English versions
Publisher: John Murphy & Co.
Published: 1899
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: Introduction, Page. 1; title: I. Sources and General Development of the Visions, 9; title: 1. Oriental Analogues, 9; title: 2. Influence of Classical Antiquity, 20; title: 3. The Old Testament, 21; title: 4. The Book of Enoch, 21; title: 5. The New Testament, 25; title: 6. The Gospel of Nicodemus, 26; title: 7. The Vision of Thespesius, 27; title: 8. The Apocalypse of Peter, 29; title: II. The Visions in Anglo-Saxon Literature, 49; title: 1. Visions Recounted by Bede, 49; title: 2. The Anglo-Saxon Hell, 54; title: (а) The Poets, 54; title: (b) The Homilists, 64; title: 3. The Anglo-Saxon Purgatory, 69; title: III. The Middle-English Visions, 74; title: 1. The Vision of St. Paul, 74; title: 2. The Vision of Tundale, 81; title: 3. St. Patrick's Purgatory, 87; title: 4. The Vision of the Monk of Eynsham, 93; title: 5. The Vision of Thurcill, 96