Paradise, death, and doomsday in Anglo-Saxon literature

How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualize the interim between death and Doomsday? In this 2001 book, Ananya Jahanara Kabir presents an investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the 'interim paradise': paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisi...

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1. Verfasser:	Kabir, Ananya Jahanara 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001
Schriftenreihe:	Cambridge studies in Anglo-Saxon England 32
Schlagworte:	Geschichte English literature / Old English, ca. 450-1100 / History and criticism Paradise in literature Christianity and literature / England / History / To 1500 Christian literature, English (Old) / History and criticism Judgment Day in literature Anglo-Saxons / Religion Death in literature Literatur Altenglisch Paradies > Motiv Jüngstes Gericht > Motiv
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Preface
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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
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Paradise, death, and doomsday in Anglo-Saxon literature

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