Isabel Moreira

Heaven's Purge (eBook, ePUB)

Purgatory in Late Antiquity

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190453725
• Artikelnr.: 42620209

Autorenporträt

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
1.: Purgatory in Early Christian and Patristic Thought
2.: Of Sons and Slaves: Violence and Correction in the Afterlife
3.: O Purgatorium Caeleste!: Purging Body and Soul at St. Martin's Shrine
4.: Purgation in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries
5.: Purgatory, Penitentials, and the Irish Question
6.: Purgatory in Bede and Boniface
7.: Missionary Eschatology and the Politics of Certainty
8.: Barbarians, Law Codes, and Purgatory
Conclusion