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| | This is a guest post by Kate McCaffrey, MA, University of Kent, Department of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. During my recent research for my master's degree in medieval and early modern studies at the University of Kent, I was lucky enough to work with a hugely understudied printed Book of Hours once owned, and written in, by Henry VIII's ill-fated second wife, Anne
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| | More information about the John Rylands Library version of Forme of Cury... and a theory about who may have commissioned the copying of the text into the British Library roll.
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| | Why did some Anglo-Saxon manuscripts have triangular texts? And where did they get this idea from?
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| [AI summary] The text explores the diverse beliefs about death and the afterlife in ancient Near Eastern cultures, particularly focusing on Jewish and early Christian traditions during the Second Temple Period. It highlights how various communities addressed theodicy, the problem of evil, by proposing that the righteous would be rewarded and the wicked punished in the afterlife. The discussion includes different views on resurrection, immortality, and eternal life, with references to key texts like the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and the New Testament. The text also notes the influence of Greek philosophy on Jewish thought, as seen in figures like Philo of Alexandria, and how these ideas shaped early Christian doctrines, particularly the belief in Jesus' resu...