St. Patrick's purgatory
Subtitle: an essay on the legends of purgatory, hell, and paradise, current during the middle ages
Publisher: John Russell Smith
Published: 1844
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS.; title: CHAPTER I.; title: Lough Derg and its legends: story of the Hag with the finger - Purgatory legends : St. Paul's vision - Furseus - Stories illustrative of the connexion between the English and Irish churches - Drihthelm - Vision of the emperor Charles - Ancient burlesque upon these visions - Anglo-Saxon notions of Purgatory, and of Paradise - The sea above the sky, and stories illustrative of it p. 1; title: CHAPTER II.; title: Purgatory legends of the twelfth century - Vision of the child William, of Tundale - Devils and hob-goblins; story of Ketel the "elf-seer" - Vision of the monk of Evesham, of Thurcill, of Guy (spiritus Guidonis) - Burlesque descriptions of Purgatory and Paradise in the Norman fabliaux - St. Peter and the Minstrel - The court o Paradise - Land of Cocaigne - English Cocaigne - Cocaigne of the ancient Greek poets p. 30; title: CHAPTER III.; title: Henry of Saltrey, and his legend of the descent of the knight Owain - French metrical versions of Henry's legend - English metrical versions - lvain the son of Urien - Story of Arthur and Merlin - Abstract of the English poem of 'Owayn Miles,' from the Cottonian manuscript p. 60; title: CHAPTER IV.; title: Situation of purgatory, &c. - Saints' legends and fairy tales - Story of St. Columba and the milkman - Fairy-land - Romance of Orfeo and Herodys - Story of the green children - Song of the visit of the youth to purgatory and paradise - Ballad of Thomas and the elf-queen - Purgatory in the air - Story of the Norwegian archbishop and his clerical elf - Voyage of St. Brandan - Legendary navigators - Situation of paradise - Journey of the three monks to paradise - The soul in the ice - Purgatory within the earth - Cosmographical notions - Entrance to purgatory p. 79; title: CHAPTER V.; title: Allegorical, satirical, and political applications of the visions - The pilgrimages of William de Deguilleville - Vision of Barontus - Raoul de Houdaing - Le songe d'enfer - La voie de paradis - Rutebeuf - Le salut d'enfer - Hugh de Berti: the tournament of Antichrist - Grecian visions - the cave of Trophonius - The Frogs of Aristophanes - Dante, the Divina Commedia - Vision of Alberic - Brunetto Latini - Comparison of the Divina Commedia with the older visions p. 104; title: CHAPTER VI.; title: St. Patrick and his Purgatory ; recapitulation - Giraldus Cambrensis - Lives of the Saint - First publication of the legend ; Gilbert de Luda and Henry of Saltrey - Visits to Patrick's Purgatory in the Fourteenth Century - Raymond de Perilhos - The Romance of Guerrino il Meschino - Froissart - Vision of William Staunton in 1409 p. 129; title: CHAPTER VII.; title: The pope orders St. Patrick's Purgatory to be destroyed ; its restoration - Calderon's play of the 'Purgatorio de San Patricio' - Vision of Louis Enius - Modern history of St. Patrick's Purgatory - Removal of the site - Proclamations against the pilgrimage in 1632, and by Queen Anne - Modern superstitions p. 152; title: CHAPTER VIII.; title: Influence of these legends on the literature of the sixteenth century - Vision of Lazarus - Scottish poets : Dunbar and Sir David Lindsay - Burlesques : Rabelais - Spanish Ballads - English Ballads : the dead man's song p. 166; title: APPENDIX OF ILLUSTRATIVE PIECES.; title: Icelandic Vision p. 177; title: An Early Burlesque 183; title: Anglo-Saxon Description of Paradise 186; title: German Ballad on Paradise 191