An Irish precursor of Dante : $b a study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the eighth-century Irish saint Adamnán, with translation of the Irish text — Dante Alighieri — John Shaqi
An Irish precursor of Dante : $b a study on the Vision of Heaven and Hell ascribed to the eighth-century Irish saint Adamnán, with translation of the Irish text
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The Vision of the Otherworld a favourite subject in the Jewish
apocryphal scriptures--The _Book of Enoch_--Parallels to Christian
Visions--Care for topographical details--Dissertations as in
Dante--Purgatorial theory--Descriptions of Hell and Heaven--The
Celestial Mountain--Sheol--The Tree of Life--Judgment--The _Gospel
of Nicodemus_--The _Vision of Esdras_ in the Old Testament
Apocrypha--Another _Vision of Esdras_ in the Christian apocryphal
books--The _Vision of Isaiah_--Little information respecting the
Otherworld in the canonical books of the New Testament--Details
in the Epistles of St. Jude and St. Peter and the
Revelation--Græco-Roman speculations during the early ages of the
Church--The Sibylline books--The ‘Harrowing of Hell’ legend--Spread
of eschatological writings--The _Shepherd of Hermas_--An
anticipation of Dante and Beatrice--Its scope rather anagogical
than eschatological--The Apocalypse of St. Peter--The Revelation
of St. Paul--Their influence apparent in the _Fis Adamnáin_--The
_Transitus Mariæ_--Blending of Hebraic and Hellenic conceptions of
the Otherworld--Persistence of the moral teaching in the Mysteries;
and of the popular belief in Tartarus--The Vision legend little
affected by Pagan cults or Neo-Platonic speculation--The Vision
legend in the Western Church--Instances recorded by St. Augustine
and St. Gregory--Minor importance of the legend in the West until
developed by the Irish Church 94-113
4. THE LEGEND IN IRELAND