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This episode we continue further with Bede as he relates two more afterlife visions of a more infernal nature, and then we hear Gregory the Great answer some questions about the nature of Hell.
Today’s Texts:
- Bede. Ecclesiastical History. In The Complete Works of Venerable Bede. Edited and translated by J.A. Giles, vols. II & III, Whittaker and Co., 1843. Google Books.
- Gregory the Great. Dialogues. Translated by P.W. (1608), edited by Edmund G. Gardner, Philip G. Warner, 1911. Digital transcription and additional editing by Roger Pearse, 2004, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index.htm#Gregory_Dialogues
References:
- Rabin, Andrew. “Bede, Dryhthelm, and the Witness to the Other World: Testimony and Conversion in the Historia ecclesiastica.” Modern Philology, vol. 106, no. 3, Feb. 2009, pp. 375-398. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/605070
- Rowely, Sharon. “The Role and Function of Otherworldly Visions in Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum,” in Germania Latina VI, ed. Kees Dekker and Karin Olsen, Series Mediaevalia Groningana, pp. 165-183. Academia.edu, www.academia.edu/7847579/The_Role_and_Function_of_Otherworldly_Visions_in_Bede_Historia_ecclesiastica_gentis_anglorum
- Snyder, Susan. “The Left Hand of God: Despair in Medieval and Renaissance Tradition.” Studies in the Renaissance, vol. 12, 1965, pp. 18-59. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2857068
Image: Detail of the torments of the damned from Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 134, fol. 99v.
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