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Document Type: | Book |
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Isabel Moreira; Oxford University Press. |
ISBN: | 9780199736041 0199736049 9780199375011 0199375011 |
OCLC Number: | 909965699 |
Description: | VIII, [1], 313 s. ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 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 |
Responsibility: | Isabel Moreira. |
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A book that is thoughtful, learned, and refreshingly independent-minded. She Moreira avoids the conventional explanations that have been advance by scholars since the Reformation... remarkable. * The New York Review of Books * Read more...
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