Visions of Heaven & Hell Before Dante

This essential and widely read collection of visions of heaven and hell, the first in English, presents new translations of two visions and newly edited versions of previously translated ones. Describes the place of these works in medieval literature and provides a helpful resource for studying elements of medieval religion.

This collection of visions includes: St. Peter’s Apocalypse, St. Paul’s Apocalypse, St. Brendan’s Voyage, St. Patrick’s Purgatory, and the Visions of Furseus, Drythelm, Wetti, Charles the Fat, Tundale, the Monk of Evesham, and Thurkill.

"An excellent anthology of translations of many of the key vision texts from the second to the early thirteenth century." -- Medium Aevum.

"An important map of the medieval imagination." -- A Common Reader, Spring 1990

Bibliography, index, glossary, notes, illustrated.