PARADISE DEATH AND DOOMSDAY IN ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE
2001réf. 1017Cambridge University Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. Hardcover. Bumping to bottom of spine. Back corner is bumped.; Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England; 9 x 0.5 x 6 Inches; 222 pages; 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. . 2001. 0521806003 . Cambridge University Press hardcover
