Vision and Script (Topoi E-I)

In the well-known context of pagan and Jewish/early Christian ideas, Christian afterworld spaces form in the tension between patristic conceptions and visionary literary imaginings. The Apocalypse of Paul, condemned by St. Augustine, took on great significance in post-ancient times. The project based on the hypothesis that the imagining of distinct afterworld spaces is especially fertile in stabilizing and popularizing the semantics of the Christian afterworld.