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Ananya J. Kabir, Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature.(Book Review)

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Publication Date: 22-SEP-02

Author: Clayton, Mary
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COPYRIGHT 2002 Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature

Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England 32 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), xi + 210 pp. ISBN 0-521-80600-3. 45.00 [pounds sterling].

This is a fascinating discussion of a concept that, until now, had scarcely been recognized as problematic. In a study the significance of which ranges far beyond Anglo-Saxon England, Ananya Kabir investigates the belief in an `interim paradise', an abode of good souls between death and Doomsday, after which they would enter heaven, and of those corporeally assumed. While a great deal of attention has been...

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