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Heaven's purge : purgatory in late antiquity /
This book traces purgatory's roots in the texts and debates of late antiquity. Illuminating the varied perspectives on post-mortem purgation in late antiquity, Moreira challenges the conclusions of recent scholarship through an examination of the texts, communities and cultural ideas that infor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York ; Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Purgatory in early Christian and patristic thought
- Of sons and slaves : violence and correction in the afterlife
- O purgatorium caeleste! : purging body and soul at St. Martin's shrine
- Purgation in the sixth and seventh centuries
- Purgatory, penitentials, and the Irish question
- Purgatory in Bede and Boniface
- Missionary eschatology and the politics of certainty
- Barbarians, law codes, and purgatory.