Paradise, death, and doomsday in Anglo-Saxon literature / Ananya Jahanara Kabir.
"How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualise the interim between death and Doomsday? In Paradise; Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature, Ananya Jahanara Kabir presents the first investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the 'interim paradise'; paradise as a temporary abode for go...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England ;
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1. Between Eden and Jerusalem, death and Doomsday : locating the interim paradise
- 2. Assertions and denials : paradise and the interim, from the Visio Sancti Pauli to Ælfric
- 3. Old hierarchies in new guise : vernacular reinterpretations of the interim paradise
- 4. Description and compromise : Bede, Boniface and the interim paradise
- 5. Private hopes, public claims? paradisus and sinus Abrahae in prayer and liturgy
- 6. Doctrinal work, descriptive play : the interim paradise and Old English poetry
- 7. From a heavenly to an earthly interim paradise : toward a tripartite otherworld
- Select bibliography
- Index.