Paradise, Death, and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature

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• Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• Abbreviations x
• 1 - Between Eden and Jerusalem, Death and Doomsday: Locating the Interim Paradise 1
• 2 - Assertions and Denials: Paradise and the Interim, from the Visio Sancti Pauli to Ælfric 14
• 3 - Old Hierarchies in New Guise: Vernacular Reinterpretations of the Interim Paradise 49
• 4 - Description and Compromise: Bede, Boniface and the Interim Paradise 77
• 5 - Private Hopes, Public Claims? Paradisus and Sinus Abrahae in Prayer and Liturgy 111
• 6 - Doctrinal Work, Descriptive Play: the Interim Paradise and Old English Poetry 141
• 7 - From a Heavenly to an Earthly Interim Paradise: Toward a Tripartite Otherworld 167
• Select Bibliography 190
• Index 203