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Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Kabir, Ananya Jahanara
Keynes, Simon
Orchard, Andy

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Book 32

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0521806003
ISBN13: 9780521806008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 13 2001
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualise the interim between death and Doomsday? In Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Dr. Kabir presents the first investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the interim paradise or paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of Doomsday. She determines the origins of this distinctive sense of paradise within early Christian polemics, establishes its Anglo-Saxon development as a site of contestation and compromise, and argues for its post-Conquest transformation into the doctrine of purgatory.

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