TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moreira,Isabel
AU  - Oxford University Press
TI  - Heaven's purge: purgatory in late antiquity 
SN  - 9780199780402
AV  - BT843 .H438 2010
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Purgatory
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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