Late Anglo-Saxon ideas about dying and death formed a coherent system, albeit one in which the many constituent parts were often in tension or conflict. Ideas about the sacred, neutral and profane, the body and its boundaries, sexuality, the living, dying and dead, the present life in linear time and the future life beyond time, all of these worked continuously to structure each other, and affected social and cultural experience at every level. This study has integrated different kinds of source and methodology to demonstrate this underlying coherence, it has oscillated between the experiences of an individual woman in Chapter One and, in Chapter Two, an overview of the whole country and period. Chapter Three's case study of a single liturgical and penitential manuscript shows how one cathedral community, Worcester in the mid-eleventh century, sought to establish an impressively high standard of pastoral care for the sick and dying. Chapter Four looked at the vulnerable microcosm of the healthy, sick and dying body, and how protection was invoked for it in ways other than the liturgical. Chapter Five looked at one threat in particular, the wyrm, and how paradoxically this embodiment of decay and damnation could also be invoked as a guardian and a symbol of faith in resurrection. Chapter Six showed how excommunication and execution, the instruments of punishment wielded by Church and State, were profoundly informed by an awareness of the Last Judgement.