Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England

Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 411
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317123071
ISBN-13 : 1317123077
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England by : Helen Foxhall Forbes

Download or read book Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England written by Helen Foxhall Forbes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence. This is the first full-length study investigating how Christian theology and religious beliefs permeated society and underpinned social values in early medieval England. The influence of the early medieval Church as an institution is widely acknowledged, but Christian theology itself is generally considered to have been accessible only to a small educated elite. This book shows that theology had a much greater and more significant impact than has been recognised. An examination of theology in its social context, and how it was bound up with local authorities and powers, reveals a much more subtle interpretation of secular processes, and shows how theological debate affected the ways that religious and lay individuals lived and died. This was not a one-way flow, however: this book also examines how social and cultural practices and interests affected the development of theology in Anglo-Saxon England, and how ’popular’ belief interacted with literary and academic traditions. Through case-studies, this book explores how theological debate and discussion affected the personal perspectives of Christian Anglo-Saxons, including where possible those who could not read. In all of these, it is clear that theology was not detached from society or from the experiences of lay people, but formed an essential constituent part.


Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England Related Books

Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: en
Pages: 411
Authors: Helen Foxhall Forbes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-22 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence
Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: en
Pages: 462
Authors: Helen Foxhall Forbes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-22 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence
Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England: The resurrection of the body and the life everlasting
Language: en
Pages: 394
Authors: Helen Foxhall Forbes
Categories: England
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, yet this book is the first full-length study investigating how it perme
Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England
Language: en
Pages: 634
Authors: Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, and are manifest in the surviving textual, visual and material evidence
Between Earth and Heaven
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Johanna Kramer
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-16 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Examines the teaching of the theology of Christ's ascension in Anglo-Saxon literature, offering the only comprehensive examination of how patristic ascension th