Rebel angels : space and sovereignty in Anglo-Saxon England /
Over six hundred years before John Milton's <i>Paradise Lost</i>, Anglo-Saxon authors told their own version of the fall of the angels. This book brings together various cultural moments, literary genres and relevant comparanda to recover that version, from the legal and social worl...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press,
[2019]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Manchester medieval literature and culture.
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| Online-Zugang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv2gmhhqh |
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.<i> </i>A new<i> praedestinati</i> in Wulfstan's <i>Sermo Lupi ad Anglos</i>
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index.