Harrowing of Hell (Latin: Descensus Christi ad Inferos, "the descent of Christ into Hell" or Hades) is the period of time between the Crucifixion of Jesus...

perspective. Dante also uses his depiction of Limbo to discuss the Harrowing of Hell, using the motif to explore the concept of predestination. Here, as mine ear...

Silmarillion and in The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien adapts the medieval tale of the Harrowing of Hell, in which Christ descends to Hell before his resurrection...

Tolkien echoes and "creatively adapts" the medieval theme of the Harrowing of Hell, in the tale of Lúthien and Beren, and in other places. The medieval tale...

The Harrowing of Hell is an eighth-century Latin work in fifty-five lines found in the Anglo-Saxon Book of Cerne (folios 98v–99v). It is probably a Northumbrian...

the time of the Harrowing of Hell. Ruins resulting from the same shock were previously seen at the beginning of Upper Hell (the entrance of the Second...

Luke 23:43), are the basis of the traditional Christian belief in the descent of Christ into hell, or the harrowing of hell. Though interpretations vary...

Heaven. Alternatively, the Harrowing of Hell was a frequent subject in the liturgical drama of the Late Middle Ages, and Hell could be depicted as a great...

in the Harrowing of Hell.[citation needed] The three shades are a transformation of three sinners whom Dante encounters in the Seventh Circle of murderers...

the harrowing of Hell and the spirit of Christ preaching to the souls of the dead in Hades while his body was in the grave. This is a variant of the harrowing...