Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature

by Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521806003
• ISBN13: 9780521806008
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"