Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 12
1 Between Eden and Jerusalem, death and Doomsday: locating the interim paradise......Page 15
SEMANTIC EXCAVATIONS AND IDEOLOGICAL DEBRIS: THE MANY MEANINGS OF PARADISE......Page 16
BEYOND HISTORY AND IDEOLOGY? SOME ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT PARADISE......Page 17
THE HISTORIAN, THE LITERARY CRITIC, AND ‘THE HISTORY OF PARADISE’......Page 19
PARADISE IGNORED? THE TEMPTATIONS OF EVOLUTIONARY LITERARY HISTORIES......Page 22
AIMS, ASSUMPTIONS AND METHODS OF THE PRESENT INVESTIGATION......Page 24
2 Assertions and denials: paradise and the interim, from the Visio Sancti Pauli to Ælfric......Page 28
PARADISE AND THE THIRD HEAVEN IN THE VISIO SANCTI PAULI......Page 29
PARADISE AS HEAVEN: AUGUSTINE’S DENIAL OF THE INTERIM STATE......Page 37
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE INTERIM: THE TRANSITUS MARIAE AND PARADISE......Page 45
LEXICAL PREVARICATIONS: ÆLFRIC AND THE INTERIM PARADISE......Page 51
3 Old hierarchies in new guise: vernacular reinterpretations of the interim paradise......Page 63
HIERARCHIES BETWEEN PARADISE AND HEAVEN: THE ‘THREE UTTERANCES’ HOMILIES......Page 64
REDACTION XI OF THE VISIO SANCTI PAULI AND THE ‘THREE UTTERANCES’......Page 69
MARY, MARGARET AND CORPORAL ASSUMPTION INTO PARADISE......Page 73
HIERARCHIES BETWEEN PARADISE AND HEAVEN: THE ‘THEBAN LEGEND’ EXEMPLUM......Page 83
UNORTHODOX PARADISES: POPULAR SENSIBILITIES AND THE PLAY OF CULTURE......Page 87
4 Description and compromise: Bede, Boniface and the interim paradise......Page 91
GREGORY’S PLEASANT MEADOW: A VISIONARY BEGINNING......Page 92
SEVENTH-CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS OF GREGORY’S OTHERWORLD......Page 96
SEVENTH-CENTURY CONVENTIONS, EIGHTH-CENTURY REAPPROPRIATIONS......Page 99
INTERNAL SYMMETRIES: THE FOUR-FOLD OTHERWORLDS OF BEDE AND BONIFACE......Page 101
CONCEIVING OF FOUR PLACES: BEDE, BONIFACE AND THE PROGNOSTICON......Page 104
VISUALISING FOUR PLACES: BEDE, BONIFACE AND GREGORY’S MEADOW......Page 111
BEDE’S SOLUTION: ARTICULATIONS, EVASIONS AND COMPROMISES......Page 117
THE DISSEMINATION OF THE FOUR-FOLD OTHERWORLD......Page 122
5 Private hopes, public claims? Paradisus and sinus Abrahae in prayer and liturgy......Page 125
THE EARLY MEDIEVAL FUNERAL RITE AND THE ANTIPHON IN PARADISUM......Page 127
SUBSTITUTES FOR SINUS ABRAHAE: CHANGING PREFERENCES WITHIN THE PRAYERBOOKS......Page 136
PARADISUS AND TWO-PART SUPPLICATIONS IN THE BOOK OF CERNE......Page 141
PARADISUS AND LOCUS REFRIGERII: TWO OPTIONS FOR THE INTERIM......Page 146
THE TENTH CENTURY AND BEYOND: A REFORMED ATTITUDE TOWARDS PARADISUS?......Page 149
6 Doctrinal work, descriptive play: the interim paradise and Old English poetry......Page 155
VISUALISING PARADISE: NEORXNAWANG AS THE GREEN MEADOW......Page 156
VISUALISING HEAVEN: HEOFON AS THE TREASURE-FILLED HALL......Page 161
DESCRIPTIVE CONFLATION: THE ‘GREEN STREET’ TO HEAVEN IN CHRIST AND SATAN......Page 164
NO SPACE FOR THE INTERIM? HEAVEN, PARADISE AND DESCRIPTIVE TYPOLOGY......Page 166
IDEAL LANDSCAPES AND AURAL ABSTRACTIONS: THE INTERIM PARADISE OF THE PHOENIX......Page 174
7 From a heavenly to an earthly interim paradise: toward a tripartite otherworld......Page 181
THE HALF-HEAVENLY, HALF-EARTHLY PARADISE OF THE ‘PROSE PHOENIX’......Page 182
ENOCH, ELIJAH AND VARIETIES OF THE INTERIM PARADISE IN VESPASIAN D. XIV......Page 189
THE FRAGMENTED INTERIM PARADISE OF THE DIALOGUE OF ADRIAN AND RITHEUS......Page 193
THE SPLINTERED LANDSCAPES OF THE TWELFTH-CENTURY OTHERWORLD......Page 196
‘THE BIRTH OF PURGATORY’ OR ‘THE DEATH OF THE INTERIM PARADISE’?......Page 201
Select bibliography......Page 204
Index......Page 217