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Angels in Early Medieval England (Hardcover)
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Angels in Early Medieval England (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
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In the modern world, angels can often seem to be no more than a
symbol, but in the Middle Ages men and women thought differently.
Some offered prayers intended to secure the angelic assistance for
the living and the dead; others erected stone monuments carved with
images of winged figures; and still others made angels the subject
of poetic endeavour and theological scholarship. This wealth of
material has never been fully explored, and was once dismissed as
the detritus of a superstitious age. Angels in Early Medieval
England offers a different perspective, by using angels as a prism
through which to study the changing religious culture of an
unfamiliar age. Focusing on one corner of medieval Europe which
produced an abundance of material relating to angels, Richard
Sowerby investigates the way that ancient beliefs about angels were
preserved and adapted in England during the Anglo-Saxon period.
Between the sixth century and the eleventh, the convictions of
Anglo-Saxon men and women about the world of the spirits underwent
a gradual transformation. This book is the first to explore that
transformation, and to show the ways in which the Anglo-Saxons
tried to reconcile their religious inheritance with their own
perspectives about the world, human nature, and God.
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