Jill Fitzgerald is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the United States Naval Academy

• List of figuresIntroduction1 Lands idle and unused2 The anxiety of inheritance3 Rebel clerics, monastic replacements4 The angels’ share5 A homeland as a possession6 A new praedestinati in Wulfstan’s Sermo Lupi ad AnglosAfterwordBibliographyIndex

'Rebel Angels is an ambitious book that traces the many dynamic reinterpretations of theangelic rebellion story. Fitzgerald’s nuanced approach to her subject’s many complexities, together with the attention given to the texts’ historical circumstances, makes a persuasive argument for the influence of the fall of the angels narrative in the literary imagination of early English authors. This is a thought-provoking book that will prove an inspiration to its careful reader.’Speculum'Rebel Angels is a fantastic resource collating stories of angelic rebellion in early medieval England... Fitzgerald’s work opens the door for future studies that more fully explore the interaction of sovereignty and space in early England.'Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures