Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England: Theology and Society in an Age of Faith

ISBN-13: 9780367601232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 410 str.

Helen Foxhall Forbes

Opis

Christian theology and religious belief were crucially important to Anglo-Saxon society, yet this book is the first full-length study investigating how it permeated and underpinned society. For whilst the influence of the Church as an institution is widely acknowledged, its abstract theological speculation is still generally considered to be the pr

Spis treści

Contents: Foreword; I believe in one God; Creator of all things, visible and invisible; And He will come again to judge the living and the dead; The communion of saints and the forgiveness of sins; The resurrection of the body and the life everlasting; Epilogue; Bibliography; Indexes.

O autorze

Helen Foxhall Forbes is a Lecturer in Early Medieval History at Durham University. She has also held posts at the University of Leicester and the University of Exeter. She studied Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge, and Theology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg-im-Breisgau. Her research interests and publications focus on Anglo-Saxon theology, liturgy, and religious and social history.