Mesopotamia, xiii, 3, 4
Micah, 56
Michael (archangel), 50
Michelangelo, 224–25
Minos, 16, 28, 262n
Minotaur, 149–50, 256n, 262n
missionaries, 179
Molech, 36
monks, 111, 113
fornicating, 97–99
Montfort, Guy de, 262n
Morimond, abbot of, 118, 119–20
Moses, 46
Mosul, 253
Mulroy, Kevin, 245, 251
murderers, 88–89
music, 253–54
Nagasaki and Hiroshima, atomic bombing of, 232, 240–43
Nazi extermination camps, see extermination camps
necromancy, 15, 35, 260n
conversion of cleric who had practiced, 118, 121
Nemean Lion, 12, 13
Nessus, 151, 152, 155
Nicodemus, 47–56
Night, 7, 10, 23
nine torments, 114, 115–17
Nobel Peace Prize, 240
No Exit (Sartre), 231–32
nuclear weapons, 240
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, 232, 240–43
nun, pregnant, 128–29
Obizzo II d’Este, 153
Odysseus, 4, 15–18, 22, 35
Odyssey (Homer), 4, 15–18, 75
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, 240
Orion, 16
Orpheus, 12
Osiris, 4
oven, red-hot, 217
pain, see punishment and torments
Pallas, 16
Pasiphaë, 28
passions, 133
vexatious, 172, 175–76, 177
patriarchs and prophets, Jewish, 45, 47, 48, 50, 56, 169
Paul the Apostle, Apocalypse of Paul, xiv, 37–44, 179
Pazzo, Rinier, 154
Perdition, 225
Persephone, 7–8, 11, 12, 13, 18, 22, 26
Pew Research Center, xiii
Phaedra, 28
Phlegyas, 32
Pholus, 151
Phristinus, 83, 95, 96–97
Pilate, Pontius, 47, 78
Pilgrim’s Progress, The (Bunyan), 193
Pinamonti, Giovanni Pietro, 179–92
Pirithous, 18, 26, 31
pits, 42–44, 214–15
Plato, 130
political detainees, xv, 232, 253–54
see also prisons
Polydorus, 263n
Pompey the Great, 262n
Poseidon, 10, 15, 256n
pregnancy, 42, 98, 128–29
Priam, 263n
priests, 111, 115, 128
fornication by, 97–99
parishioners’ stoning of, 126
prisons, xv, 232, 244
political detainees in, xv, 232, 253–54
solitary confinement in, 244–52, 253
see also extermination camps
prophets and patriarchs, Jewish, 45, 47, 48, 50, 56, 169
Procris, 28
Proserpina, 23
Protesilaus, 256n
Protestant Reformation, xv, 169
Protestants, 169–70, 179, 180
punishment and torments, 30, 36, 72, 199, 227
in Apocalypse of Paul, 37–44, 179
the blessed as pitying, 132–34
the blessed as rejoicing in, 134–35
the blessed as seeing, 131–32
contemplation of, 179–92
as continual, 172, 177–78
darkness, see darkness
as eternal, 172, 177–78, 187–91
fear of, vs. punishment itself, 190
fire, see fire
as fitting the crime, 88–101, 191–92
as just, 190–92
nine, 114, 115–17
Socrates on, 19–21
stench, see stench
as unchangeable, 189–90
in Vision of Tundale, 87, 88–101
worms, see worms
Purgatory, 59–60, 111, 113, 120, 169, 224, 225
Pyrrhus, 154
reason, xv, 133, 175
Redbord (Radbod), King of Frisia, 226–27
Red Cross, 253
Resurrection of the Dead and Eternall Judgement, or, The Truth of the Resurrection and the Bodies Both of Good and Bad at the Last Day, The (Bunyan), 193–96
Revelation, 37, 223, 225
revenge, 176
self-, 175
Reznor, Trent, vii
Rhadamanthus, 30
rich man, parable of, 45–46, 172, 177, 183
Rinier da Corneto, 154
Rinier Pazzo, 154
rivers
Styx, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 147
of tears, 206–7
robbers, 93–95
Romans, xiii, 4, 22, 23, 35, 37
Rudinger (knight), 129
sacrilege, 94
saints, relationship to the damned, see blessed and the damned
Salmoneus, 30–31
sand, 219–20
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 231–32
Satan (Devil; Lucifer), 65, 175, 182, 223
cleric’s summoning of, 122
company and conversation of, 172, 176–77
in Dante’s Inferno, 139–40, 163–64
Furniss on, 207–8
in Gospel of Nicodemus, 47, 48, 51–52, 54–55
soul standing before, 208–9
student’s pact with, 118, 119–20
in Vision of Tundale, 83, 104–7
screams, 102, 206, 213
in prison, 245, 247
Sebastian, Saint, 259n
self-defilers, 97–99
self-revenge, 175
Seneca the Younger, 12–14
sensual appetites, 174–75
“Sentence Worse Than Death, A” (Blake), 244–52
serpents, 116, 127
Seth, 50–51
Sextus, 154
shame, 114, 115, 128
Sheol, xiii, 35
SHU (Special Housing Unit; solitary confinement), 244–52, 253
Sibyl, 22–28, 30
Sight of Hell, The (Furniss), 201–21, 222
Simeon, 48, 50
sins, multiple, 100–101
Sisyphus, 4, 17
slavery, 231
Sleep, 7, 10, 24
smell, see stench
Socrates, 4, 19–21
solitary confinement, 244–52, 253
Solomon, Wisdom of, 102, 116–17
sounds
of eternity, 220–21
in interrogation, 253–54
music, 253–54
in prison, 245, 247
sad voice, 218
see also screams
South, 231
Special Housing Unit (SHU; solitary confinement), 244–52, 253
spies, 89, 90
Spiritual Exercises (Ignatius Loyola), 179
Standring, G., 222
stench, 43, 70, 71, 87, 92, 102, 107, 114, 115, 116, 182–83, 192, 207, 208
in prison, 245, 248
Strophades, 155
Styx, 22, 23, 25, 26, 28, 147
Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas), 130–35, 264n
sun, 10, 170
Swinden, Tobias, 170
Sychaeus, 29
Taenarum, 13
Tantalus, 4, 17
Tartarus, 4, 7–11, 19–20, 29, 30, 35, 36, 37, 39, 42, 51
tears, 92, 206–7, 219
Telamon, 15
Teresa of Ávila, Saint, 204, 209, 212
Terrible Judgment, and the Bad Child, The (Furniss), 217
Thames, 153
Theogony (Hesiod), 7–11
Theseus, 12–14, 18, 26, 32, 256n, 262n
thieves, 93–95
Thomas, Saint, 181
Thomas Aquinas, xiv, 130–35, 264n
Tiresias, 15, 22
Tisiphone, 29–30
Titans, 4, 7–11, 15–18, 30
Tityos (Tityus), 4, 16, 31
toads, 127
Tollemache, Lionel A., 199
Toppo, 159
torture
in Hell, see punishment and torments
in prisons, 232, 253–54
traitors, 89, 90
Treatise concerning the Principal Mysteries of our Religion, 115–17
Treblinka, 233–39
Trojans, 16, 155
Trojan War, 15, 22, 256n
Tundale, see Vision of Tundale
Typhon, 8
Ulster Cycle, 258n
Vesuvius, 225
Virgil, 4–5, 22
The Aeneid, xiii–xiv, 5, 22–32, 139, 263n
in Dante’s Inferno, 23, 139, 150, 151, 158
Virgin Mary, 44, 78
Vishnu, 240
Vision of Tundale (Visio Tnugdali), 83–84, 179
angel sent to meet Tundale’s soul, 86–87
deepest depths of hell, 103–4
departure of Tundale’s soul, 85–86
descent into hell, 102
fornicators in, 96–97, 97–99
gluttons in, 96–97
greedy in, 90–92
monks and priests in, 97–99
multiple sinners in, 100–101
murderers in, 88–89
prince of shadows in, 104–7
proud souls in, 89–90
punishments in, 87, 88–101
self-defilers in, 97–99
spies and traitors in, 89, 90
thieves and robbers in, 93–95
Visions of Clairvaux, 121
voices
sad, 218
see also screams
Voyage of Saint Brendan, The, 60, 75–80
Vulcanus, 100
war, xv, 232, 240–41
see also World War II
Warsaw ghetto uprising, 236, 238
water, 186
wayfarers, 131, 134
William III of England, 171
wine, 129
Wisdom of Solomon, 102, 116–17
Wólka, 237, 238
World War II, xv, 232
atomic bombing of Japan in, 232, 240–43
see also extermination camps
worms, 36, 41, 44, 97, 114, 115, 116, 171, 177, 180
Furniss on, 212
Zeus, 7–10, 16–18
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