Hell

Course Description: Fear of Hell and its punishments wracked the medieval mind and provided material for a series of lurid descriptions of visions of it that constituted a kind of medieval fan fiction. Participants in this course will read a series of selections of descriptions of Hell, from the late Antique Visio Pauli through Bede's description of Dryhthelm's Vision, the Visio Tnugdali, the Visio Anselli, and the Anonymous Revelatio Visionis.

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Level: Intermediate to Advanced Latin reading.

Textbook: Instructor will provide materials.

Sections capped at: 5 students. If the course is sold-out, please fill out this waiting-list form.

When
Fridays, 6:00p.m.

Cost
$250

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John Weretka

John Weretka holds undergraduate and graduate qualifications in medieval history, musicology, art history, theology, and Latin, and he recently completed a Master’s degree in Viking Studies with a thesis examining the ethnology of the ‘North’ from Tacitus to the Vínland sagas. He is completing a second Master's degree in Germanic Philology. He has taught extensively for Telepaideia, including courses on Bede’s Ecclesiastical History, Donizo’s Life of Matilda of Tuscany, the works of Athanasius Kircher, texts on Hell, heresy, and apocalypse in the Middle Ages, and the Itinerarium Mentis of St Bonaventure. Perennially interested in languages, current fascinations include Old English, Classical Syriac, Old Norse, and Coptic.

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