Books in the Bibliography of The History of Hell by Alice K. Turner

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The Odyssey
by Homer
62,744 members
524 reviews
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
by William Shakespeare
35,647 members
177 reviews
½ 4.6
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Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
27,696 members
229 reviews
4.1
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The Aeneid (translations)
by Virgil
26,828 members
229 reviews
3.9
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Metamorphoses [in translation]
by Ovid
15,301 members
115 reviews
4.1
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell
10,702 members
83 reviews
4.1
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
by Gilgamesh Poet
10,457 members
133 reviews
3.8
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The Golden Ass
by Apuleius
5,541 members
83 reviews
3.9
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The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
by Eusebius
5,088 members
30 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Greek Myths {complete}
by Robert Graves
4,969 members
34 reviews
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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
by Jacob Burckhardt
2,745 members
17 reviews
3.9
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Mimesis: the representation of reality in western literature
by Erich Auerbach
2,660 members
18 reviews
4.1
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Theogony / Works and Days
by Hesiod
2,371 members
20 reviews
½ 3.6
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Augustine of Hippo: A Biography
by Peter Brown
2,264 members
14 reviews
½ 4.3
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Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
1,993 members
24 reviews
3.9
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Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Plays
by Christopher Marlowe
1,832 members
11 reviews
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The Waning of the Middle Ages
by Johan Huizinga
1,765 members
14 reviews
3.9
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Faust
by Goethe
1,708 members
34 reviews
3.9
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Myths from Mesopotamia : creation, the flood, Gilgamesh, and others
by Stephanie Dalley
1,624 members
6 reviews
3.8
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The Nag Hammadi Library in English, Third, Completely Revised Edition
by James M. Robinson
1,598 members
8 reviews
4.1
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A History of Christianity
by Paul Johnson
1,590 members
7 reviews
3.8
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The Poetry and Prose of William Blake {Erdman, ed.}
by William Blake
1,548 members
5 reviews
½ 4.4
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Pagans and Christians
by Robin Lane Fox
1,532 members
12 reviews
3.8
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Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
by H R Ellis Davidson
1,475 members
11 reviews
3.9
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25
Philosophical Dictionary
by Voltaire
1,370 members
12 reviews
4
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A Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels
by Gustav Davidson
1,223 members
16 reviews
3.8
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The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
by John Donne
1,206 members
6 reviews
½ 4.4
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Essays and Lectures
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
1,116 members
2 reviews
½ 4.3
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Dialogues of Plato
by Plato
1,007 members
13 reviews
4.2
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The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari
992 members
6 reviews
½ 3.7
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Rabelais and His World
by Mikhail Bakhtin
970 members
9 reviews
½ 4.3
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33
Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden
by Rutherford Hayes Platt
968 members
3 reviews
3.9
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The Greeks and the Irrational
by E. R. Dodds
921 members
10 reviews
4.2
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Inanna, Queen of Heaven and Earth: Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer
by Diane Wolkstein
920 members
13 reviews
4.1
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Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
by Raymond O. Faulkner
881 members
6 reviews
4.1
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Greek Religion
by Walter Burkert
849 members
6 reviews
4.2
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Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1450-1516 : between heaven and hell
by Walter Bosing
836 members
2 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Hour of Our Death
by Philippe Ariès
826 members
5 reviews
4.2
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The world of Michelangelo, 1475-1564
by Robert Coughlan
819 members
4 reviews
3.8
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41
The History of Hell
by Alice K. Turner
729 members
7 reviews
½ 3.7
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Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
by Marina Warner
714 members
7 reviews
3.9
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The Gnostic Religion
by Hans Jonas
695 members
5 reviews
4.1
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The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism
by Peter Gay
666 members
2 reviews
4.2
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The Essential Erasmus
by Desiderius Erasmus
658 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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Edmund Spenser's Poetry [Norton Critical Edition]
by Edmund Spenser
641 members
1 review
3.9
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Feudal Society
by Marc Bloch
607 members
1 review
3.9
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Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath
by Carlo Ginzburg
583 members
2 reviews
4
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The Ancient Near East: An Anthology of Texts and Pictures
by James B. Pritchard
520 members
2 reviews
4.2
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Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804
by Richard Holmes
516 members
2 reviews
3.9
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The Nature of Greek Myths
by G. S. Kirk
486 members
1 review
½ 3.4
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Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism
by Erwin Panofsky
461 members
½ 3.3
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Samuel Johnson
by W. Jackson Bate
432 members
5 reviews
½ 4.4
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Gilgamesh
by John Gardner
429 members
9 reviews
4.1
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The Ancient Mysteries A Sourcebook of Sacred Texts
by Marvin W. Meyer
422 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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The World of Giotto, c. 1267-1337
by Sarel Eimerl
417 members
3 reviews
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Middle Eastern Mythology
by S. H. Hooke
417 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Birth of Purgatory
by Jacques Le Goff
412 members
7 reviews
3.9
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The Romantic Agony
by Mario Praz
378 members
5 reviews
½ 3.4
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The Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels (Phoenix Books)
by Alexander Heidel
350 members
1 review
½ 4.3
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Sumerian Mythology
by Samuel Noah Kramer
345 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
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A Dictionary of the English Language
by Samuel Johnson
343 members
14 reviews
½ 4.6
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Selected Poems and Letters
by John Keats
319 members
1 review
½ 4.4
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Satan: The Early Christian Tradition
by Jeffrey Burton Russell
300 members
2 reviews
4.1
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Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages
by Jacques Le Goff
295 members
2 reviews
3.8
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The Making of Late Antiquity
by Peter Brown
284 members
2 reviews
3.8
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Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
by M. H. Abrams
283 members
1 review
3.9
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Jesus the Magician
by Morton Smith
280 members
10 reviews
½ 3.4
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Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages (Cornell Paperbacks)
by Jeffrey Burton Russell
272 members
1 review
3.9
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Medieval history; the life and death of a civilization
by Norman F. Cantor
264 members
1 review
½ 3.7
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Hieronymus Bosch
by Walter S. Gibson
256 members
1 review
½ 3.5
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The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870
by Walter E. Houghton
248 members
2 reviews
4.1
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The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry
by Harold Bloom
245 members
2 reviews
4.1
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
by Britannica
232 members
3 reviews
4.2
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Myth: Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures
by G. S. Kirk
229 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World
by Jeffrey Burton Russell
224 members
3 reviews
4.1
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The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Egypt: An Illustrated Dictionary
by Manfred Lurker
222 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
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John Keats
by Walter Jackson Bate
218 members
1 review
½ 4.3
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Heaven: A History
by Colleen McDannell
218 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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Mythologies of the Ancient World
by Samuel Noah Kramer
216 members
2 reviews
3.1
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Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons
by Manfred Lurker
212 members
1 review
4.1
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Society and the Holy in Late Antiquity
by Peter Brown
200 members
1 review
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Bruegel
by Walter S. Gibson
189 members
2 reviews
½ 3.6
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Sources for the Study of Greek Religion
by David G. Rice
176 members
2.8
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Orpheus and Greek Religion (Mythos Books)
by William Keith Guthrie
170 members
2 reviews
3.9
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Heaven and Hell
by Aldous Huxley
163 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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Heresies of the High Middle Ages
by Walter L. Wakefield
150 members
2 reviews
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A Handbook of Living Religions
by John R. Hinnells
144 members
2 reviews
½ 2.3
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The Religions of the Roman Empire
by John Ferguson
139 members
1 review
½ 3.3
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Encyclopedia of American Religions
by J. Gordon Melton
133 members
1 review
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Renaissance and Reformation
by V. H. H. Green
119 members
½ 2.7
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