Moreira, Isabel. <br/><br/>
Heaven's purge :  purgatory in late antiquity / 
Isabel Moreira. 
 - New York ;  Oxford :  Oxford University Press,  (c)2010. 
 - 1 online resource 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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 informed purgatory's early history. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199780402 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Purgatory--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BT843  / .H438 2010