Translating hell by Stephen C E Hopkins
In the Middle Ages, hell was useful because it was vaguely defined. Canonical scriptures scarcely mention hell, leaving much to the imaginations of early Christians, who used it to sort out who belonged within the faith. This book explores how hell became a place for literary experiments with local challenges in theology and identity. Following the reception and transformations of two popular hell apocrypha, it argues that they served as this role because of their liminal textual authority. As noncanonical scriptures, apocrypha afforded medieval writers space to revise their hells (since they were not actually scripture), while also encouraging readers to revere those experiments as valid (since they seemed like scripture). The book brings together adaptations from early medieval England, Iceland, Ireland, and Wales, placing the early vernacular theologies of the North Sea in comparative conversation.-
The Parlement of Foulys
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The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
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Medieval literary voices
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Hybrid healing
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Difficult pasts
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Play time
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Transfiguring medievalism
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Medieval afterlives
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The narrative grotesque in medieval Scottish poetry
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Between liturgy and magic
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Walking in the Middle Ages
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Contemporary Chaucer across the centuries
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From Iceland to the Americas
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The politics of Middle English parables
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Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France
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Northern Memories and the English Middle Ages
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Annotated Chaucer Bibliography
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Language and imagination in the Gawain poems
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Objects of Affection
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Harley Manuscript Geographies
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The The Knight and the Barrel (Le Chevalier Au Barisel)
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The Scottish Legendary
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Love, History and Emotion in Chaucer and Shakespeare
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Roadworks
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A Knight's Legacy
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Enacting the Bible in Medieval and Early Modern Drama
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Transporting Chaucer
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Sanctity as Literature in Late Medieval Britain
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A Landscape of Words
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Reading Robin Hood
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Greenery
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Rethinking the South English Legendaries
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Aspects of Knowledge
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Practising Shame
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The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture
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Visions and Ruins
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Approaches to emotion in Middle English literature
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Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England
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Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance
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Objects of belief
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Saga Emotions
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Strange matter
Stephen Hopkins is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Virginia
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| ISBN 13 | 9781526175038 |
| ISBN 10 | 1526175037 |
| Title | Translating hell |
| Author | Stephen C E Hopkins |
| Series | Manchester Medieval Literature And Culture |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press |
| Year published | 2026-05-05 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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