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Hells, heavens and afterworlds: a traveller’s guide

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The Art of Heaven and Hell

There's a great sort of tradition in mediaeval and later literary of of vision tours a heavens and hells. Am, your getting a deeper glimpse into the more common imagination of people of that time. And so for this book, i was travelling round to a lot of these churches, looking for a these sort of artistic hell guides. One of them, which i only knew about because my mamma had mentioned she grew up same village in chalden,. There is an enormous 17 foot wide mural that i put as a double page in the book. It's only in white and red, ocr am, and it shows heaven and hell a as envisioned by this, they think

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