Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521806008)

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.

Author: Ananya Jahanara Kabir
ISBN-10: 0521806003
ISBN-13: 9780521806008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/13/2001
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d