Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature

224 Pages·2001·0.8 MB·English

by  Ananya Jahanara Kabir

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PARADISE, DEATH AND DOOMSDAY IN
ANGLO-SAXON LITERATURE
cambridge studies in
anglo-saxon england
foundinggeneraleditors
michael lapidge and simon keynes
currentgeneraleditors
simon keynes and andy orchard
Volumespublished
1 Anglo-SaxonCrucifixionIconographyandtheArtoftheMonasticRevival
bybarbara c. raw
2 TheCultoftheVirginMaryinAnglo-SaxonEnglandbymary clayton
3 ReligionandLiteratureinWesternEngland,600–800bypatrick sims-williams
4 VisibleSong:TransitionalLiteracyinOldEnglishVerseby
katherine o’brien o’keefe
5 TheMetricalGrammarof‘Beowulf’bycalvin b. kendall
6 TheIrishTraditioninOldEnglishLiteraturebycharles d. wright
7 Anglo-SaxonMedicinebym. l. cameron
8 ThePoeticArtofAldhelmbyandy orchard
9 TheOldEnglishLivesofStMargaretbymary clayton andhugh magennis
10 BiblicalCommentariesfromtheCanterburySchoolofTheodoreandHadrian
bybernhard bischoff andmichael lapidge
11 ArchbishopTheodore:CommemorativeStudiesonhisLifeandInfluence
editedbymichael lapidge
12 InteractionsofThoughtandLanguageinOldEnglishPoetrybypeter clemoes
13 TheTextualityofOldEnglishPoetrybycarol braun pasternack
14 The‘LaterculusMalalianus’andtheSchoolofArchbishopTheodorebyjane stevenson
15 TheTextoftheOldTestamentinAnglo-SaxonEnglandbyrichard marsden
16 OldEnglishBiblicalVersebypaul g. remley
17 TheHymnsoftheAnglo-SaxonChurchbyinge b. milfull
18 ScenesofCommunityinOldEnglishPoetrybyhugh magennis
19 TheOldEnglishApocryphaandtheirManuscriptSource:‘TheGospelofNichodemus’and
‘TheAvengingoftheSaviour’editedbyj. e. cross
20 TheCompositionofOldEnglishPoetrybyh. momma
21 TrinityandIncarnationinAnglo-SaxonArtandThoughtbybarbara c. raw
22 HeathenGodsinOldEnglishLiteraturebyrichard north
23 ‘Beowulf’andOldGermanicMetrebygeoffrey russom
24 Ælfric’sLettertotheMonksofEynshambychristopher a. jones
25 TheIntellectualFoundationsofEnglishBenedictineReformbymechthild gretsch
26 ApocryphalGospelsofMaryinAnglo-SaxonEnglandbymary clayton
27 RepresentationsoftheNaturalWorldinOldEnglishPoetrybyjennifer neville
28 Anglo-SaxonGesturesandtheRomanStagebyc. r. dodwell
29 LiteraryAppropriationsoftheAnglo-SaxonsfromtheThirteenthtotheTwentiethCentury
bydonald scragg andcarole weinberg
30 RewritingOldEnglishintheTwelfthCenturybymary swann and
elaine m. treharne
31 TextandPictureinAnglo-SaxonEngland:NarrativeStrategiesintheJunius11Manuscript
bycatherine e. karkov
Paradise, Death and Doomsday in
Anglo-Saxon Literature
ANANYA JAHANARA KABIR
TrinityCollege,Cambridge
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Contents
Preface pageix
Listofabbreviations x
1 BetweenEdenandJerusalem,deathandDoomsday:locatingthe
interimparadise 1
2 Assertionsanddenials:paradiseandtheinterim,fromtheVisio
SanctiPaulitoÆlfric 14
3 Oldhierarchiesinnewguise:vernacularreinterpretationsofthe
interimparadise 49
4 Descriptionandcompromise:Bede,Bonifaceandtheinterim
paradise 77
5 Privatehopes,publicclaims?ParadisusandsinusAbrahaein
prayerandliturgy 111
6 Doctrinalwork,descriptiveplay:theinterimparadiseandOld
Englishpoetry 141
7 Fromaheavenlytoanearthlyinterimparadise:towarda
tripartiteotherworld 167
Selectbibliography 190
Index 203
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