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

1st Edition

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

By Helen Foxhall Forbes Copyright 2013
410 Pages
by Routledge

410 Pages
by Routledge

410 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more
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.

Biography

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.

'The book is learned, well researched, and covers a very broad range of material easily justifying the chronological limits outlined at the outset. The text is very clean across its 300-plus pages, and well produced." - Reviews in History

"Helen Foxhall Forbes intelligently mines an impressive number of diverse sources for evidence, including nonreligious ones, which reveal something about the workings of medieval theology 'on the ground.'"- Johanna Kramer, University of Missouri

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