Hell in the Byzantine World: Volume 2, a Catalogue of the Cretan Material: A History of Art and Religion in Venetian Crete and the Eastern Mediterrane

by Angeliki Lymberopoulou and Rembrandt Duits

The imagery of Hell, the Christian account of the permanent destinations of the human soul after death, has fascinated people over the centuries since the emergence of the Christian faith. These landmark volumes provide the first large-scale investigation of this imagery found across the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world. Particular emphasis is placed on images from churches across Venetian Crete, which are comprehensively collected and published...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108474160
• ISBN13: 9781108474160
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 500 Pages