How Long to Read Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature

How Long Does it Take to Read Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature by Ananya Jahanara Kabir

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualize the interim between death and Doomsday? In this 2001 book, Ananya Jahanara Kabir presents an investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the 'interim paradise': paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of Doomsday. She locates the origins of this distinctive sense of paradise within early Christian polemics, establishes its Anglo-Saxon development as a site of contestation and compromise, and argues for its post-Conquest transformation into the doctrine of purgatory. In ranging across Old English prose and poetry as well as Latin apocrypha, exegesis, liturgy, prayers and visions of the otherworld, and combining literary criticism with recent scholarship in early medieval history, early Christian theology and history of ideas, this book is essential reading for scholars of Anglo-Saxon England, historians of Christianity, and all those interested in the impact of the Anglo-Saxon period on the later Middle Ages.

How long is Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature?

Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature by Ananya Jahanara Kabir is 224 pages long, and a total of 56,896 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 10 minutes to read Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature aloud.

What Reading Level is Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature?

Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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