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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"fate of the soul"”.
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Representations of the pagan afterlife in medieval Scandinavian literature
The corpus of texts surviving from medieval Scandinavia which contain, or purport to contain, pre-Christian myths, vestiges of a pagan belief-system, is quite large. As in all religions, the fate of the ‘soul’ after death is shown to be of primary concern to pagan Scandinavians. My dissertation is …
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Death and Commemoration in Late Medieval Wales
This study examines the attitudes to and commemoration of death in Wales in the period between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century by analysis of the poetical work produced during this period. In so doing, this is placed in the wider context of death and …
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‘The art of salvation is but the art of memory’ : soul-agency, remembrance and expression in Donne and Shakespeare
This thesis examines how the dislocation of old beliefs in post-Reformation England affected perceptions of the soul in the work of Donne and Shakespeare. The introduction, using Augustinian discourses on the tri-partite soul, explores how the soul is imagined in post-Reformation England. Current …