TY - BOOK ID - 135806196 TI - Rebel angels AU - Fitzgerald, Jill AU - Manchester University Press PY - 2019 SN - 1526129108 9781526129109 9781526129116 9781526129093 PB - Manchester, UK DB - UniCat KW - Anglo-Saxon England. KW - Benedictine reform. KW - Biblical poetry. KW - Fall of the angels. KW - Junius manuscript. KW - King Alfred. KW - Land charters. KW - Old English. KW - Rogationtide. KW - Sermons. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135806196 AB - This book examines the 'fall of the angels' tradition in early medieval sermons, saints' lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It argues that Anglo-Saxon authors adapted apocryphal and patristic accounts in ways that allowed them to express their ideas concerning ecclesiastical and secular power. ER -