9780521806008-0521806003-Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 32)

Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 32)

ISBN-13: 9780521806008
ISBN-10: 0521806003
Author: Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 224 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780521806008
ISBN-10: 0521806003
Author: Ananya Jahanara Kabir
Publication date: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover 224 pages

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Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 32) (ISBN-13: 9780521806008 and ISBN-10: 0521806003), written by authors Ananya Jahanara Kabir, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2001. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England, Series Number 32) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.52.

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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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