Jill Fitzgerald (Assistant Professor of English)

Rebel angels

Space and sovereignty in Anglo-Saxon England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the â fall of the angelsâ tradition in early medieval sermons, saintsâ lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It argues that Anglo-Saxon authors adapted apocryphal and patristic accounts in ways that allowed them to express their ideas concerning ecclesiastical and secular power. -- .

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Produktdetails

• Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781526155924
• ISBN-10: 1526155923
• Artikelnr.: 59910136

Autorenporträt

Jill Fitzgerald is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the United States Naval Academy

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures Introduction 1 Lands idle and unused 2 The anxiety of
inheritance 3 Rebel clerics, monastic replacements 4 The angels' share 5 A
homeland as a possession 6 A new praedestinati in Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad
Anglos Afterword Bibliography Index