Heaven's Purge traces purgatory's roots in the texts and debates of late antiquity. Illuminating the varied perspectives on post-mortem purgation in late antiquity, Isabel Moreira challenges the conclusions of recent scholarship through an examination of the texts, communities, and cultural ideas that informed purgatory's early history.
Heaven's Purge traces purgatory's roots in the texts and debates of late antiquity. Illuminating the varied perspectives on post-mortem purgation in late antiquity, Isabel Moreira challenges the conclusions of recent scholarship through an examination of the texts, communities, and cultural ideas that informed purgatory's early history.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Isabel Moreira is Professor of History at the University of Utah. She is the author of numerous studies of religion and society in late antiquity and the early middle ages, including Dreams, Visions and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul and is co-editor of the forthcoming Hell and Its Afterlife: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with her husband and two daughters.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction. Purgatory in Late Antiquity * Chapter One. Purgatory in Early Christian and Patristic Thought * Chapter Two. Of Sons and Slaves: Violence and Correction in the Afterlife * Chapter Three. O Purgatorium Caeleste!: Purging Body and Soul at St. Martin's Shrine * Chapter Four. Purgation in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries * Chapter Five. Purgatory, Penitentials, and the Irish Question * Chapter Six. Purgatory in Bede and Boniface * Chapter Seven. Missionary Eschatology and the Politics of Certainty * Chapter Eight. Barbarians, Law Codes, and Purgatory * Conclusion
* Introduction. Purgatory in Late Antiquity * Chapter One. Purgatory in Early Christian and Patristic Thought * Chapter Two. Of Sons and Slaves: Violence and Correction in the Afterlife * Chapter Three. O Purgatorium Caeleste!: Purging Body and Soul at St. Martin's Shrine * Chapter Four. Purgation in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries * Chapter Five. Purgatory, Penitentials, and the Irish Question * Chapter Six. Purgatory in Bede and Boniface * Chapter Seven. Missionary Eschatology and the Politics of Certainty * Chapter Eight. Barbarians, Law Codes, and Purgatory * Conclusion
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