Abstract

This article examines the nature, extent and location of post-mortem punishments in late 17th- and early 18th-century England. It is particularly concerned to illuminate the discontinuity between that world and ours by showing the way in which the contours of hell reflected and embodied images of the nature of personal identity, of human personality and the role of the individual in society.

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