Concerning More 8th-Century Visions of Hell

This episode we continue further with Bede as he relates two more afterlife visions of a more infernal nature, and then we hear Gregory the Great answer some questions about the nature of Hell.

Today's Texts:

Bede. Ecclesiastical History. In The Complete Works of Venerable Bede. Edited and translated by J.A. Giles, vols. II & III, Whittaker and Co., 1843. Google Books.

Gregory the Great. Dialogues. Translated by P.W. (1608), edited by Edmund G. Gardner, Philip G. Warner, 1911. Digital transcription and additional editing by Roger Pearse, 2004, https://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index.htm#Gregory_Dialogues

Chapters

00:00:00 Introduction

00:02:34 Text: Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica, Ch. 13-14

00:10:53 Commentary

00:32:11 Text: from the Dialogues of Gregory the Great, Bk 4, Ch. 41-44

00:40:04 Commentary. cont.

00:40:35 Mystery Word: Jeffrey's-day

00:43:07 Outro