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Publication details for Dr Sarah Semple
Semple, S.J. (2003). Illustrations of Damnation in Late Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts. Anglo-Saxon England 32: 31-45.- Publication type: Journal papers: academic
- ISSN/ISBN: 0263-6751, 1474-0532
- Keywords: Manuscript illumination, landscape, monuments, execution, hell, damnation
- View online: Online version
- Durham research online: DRO record
Author(s) from Durham
Abstract
This paper interprets a group of innovative illustrations from
the eleventh century English manuscript, the Harley Psalter, in the
context of textual, documentary, place-name and archaeological evidence
for a uniquely late Anglo-Saxon conception of barrows, ancient monuments
and deviant burial places as places of damnation and hellish torment.
