Into the Deepest Dark: Hell in Medieval Tradition
- September 24, 2018
- 4:00 PM - 5:00 CST
- IES 123-4
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Medieval Studies Program
Prof. Tanya Stabler, tstabler@luc.edu - none
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At *Into the Deepest Dark: Hell and its Torments in the Medieval Tradition,* Dr. Scott G. Bruce, Professor of History at Fordham University, will discuss the long arc of the history of the punitive afterlife from late antiquity to the early modern period, with a coda on modern America. Dr. Bruce is the author of a new Penguin Classics anthology, The Penguin Book of Hell.