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Paradise, death, and doomsday in Anglo-Saxon literature /

"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kabir, Ananya Jahanara, 1970-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England ; 32.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.