A Hellish Seminar

It will be given by Professor Alastair Minnis, Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English at Yale and Emeritus Professor of English at York. He is the author of eight monographs and editor of twelve more. After publishing a study of Paradise in 2015 (From Eden to Eternity: Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages, University of Pennsylvania Press), he has now followed up with a study of Hell (Hellish Imaginations from Augustine to Dante: an Essay in Metaphor and Materiality, Medium Aevum Monographs, Oxford, 2020) – and this will be the subject of his talk. He has also just published a short book and e-book with Cambridge UP, Phantom Pains and Prosthetic Narratives. Attached is an e-copy of an essay of his on Hell as a voluntary ‘short read’ before the seminar.