ISBN-13: 9781526129093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 336 str.
ISBN-13: 9781526129093 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 336 str.
This book examines the 'fall of the angels' tradition in early medieval sermons, saints' 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. -- .