Greek & Roman Hell : Visions, Tours and Descriptions of the Infernal Otherworld
Greek & Roman Hell : Visions, Tours and Descriptions of the Infernal Otherworld
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Author(s): Gardiner, Eileen
Hesiod
ISBN No.: 9781599102283
Pages: 170
Year: 201810
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 41.40
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Eileen Gardiner is the publisher of Italica Press. Currently she is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol. She is the former co-executive director of the Medieval Academy of America and the former co-director of ACLS Humanities E-Book. She holds a Ph.D. in English and comparative literature, with a specialization in medieval literature. Dr. Gardiner has published several articles and books on medieval vision literature, including her Visions of Heaven and Hell Before Dante.


She is the editor of Hell-on-Line, a website that comprises a comprehensive collection of visions, tours and descriptions of the infernal otherworld from various religious and cultural traditions; and The Pilgrim's Way to St. Patrick's Purgatory, a project that traces for the modern pilgrim the medieval route from Dublin to Lough Derg in County Donegal. Her recent articles include "Visions and Journeys," in Dante in Context, edited by Lino Pertile and Zygmunt G. Baranski (Cambridge University Press, 2015); "Hell," in the Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, Vol. 11: The Middle Ages and Reformation, edited by Carolyn Muessig (De Gruyter, 2015); and "Heaven, Purgatory and Hell," in Handbook of Medieval Culture vol. 1, edited by Albrecht Classen (De Gruyter, 2015). Dr. Gardiner's forthcoming articles include "Heaven and Hell," in The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying, edited by Christopher M.


Moreman (Routledge); and "The Vision of Tnugdal," in Imagining the Medieval Afterlife, edited by Richard Pollard (Cambridge University Press).