Author: Rebecca Shapiro

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2019-01-04

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 9780365048862

Excerpt from The Twelfth Century Anglo-French Version of the Voyage of St. Brandan to Hell and to the Terrestrial Paradise In many productions of early times. In Book XI of the Odyssey, Homer'describes the descent of Ulysses into the realm of Pluto where souls were punished after death. Plato in Book X of the fnpublic in the story of Her describes the future life of both the blessed and unblessed. The Romans in their imitative style borrowed the notion from the Greeks and in Cicero's hepublic, the dream of Scipio is a parallel to the dream.of Her. Virgil's Aeneid in Book I reveals the same belief. -he introduction of Christianitv deveiops the idea most fully.. He early Christians in their intense religious fervor devote themselves almost exclusively to the attainment of future happiness. Their excess of religious sentiment makes them.desirous of seeing the abode of the blessed before it is time. Erchance they undertook some few voyages with that end in view. At least they gave full rein to their imaginations and many wonderful voyages for the purpose of discovering the seat of future joy are recorded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.