Concerning More 8th-Century Visions of Hell

Oct 14, 2025
45 mins

Episode Description

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
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