Heaven's Purge - Moreira, Isabel
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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.

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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.
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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.