Sophocles. A Reading / G. H. Gellie

• Record Nr.: UNIORUON00098199
• Autore: GELLIE, G. H.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Melbourne, : University Press
• Descrizione fisica: p. ; cm
• Soggetti: LETTERATURA GRECA
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Heaven's purge : purgatory in late antiquity / / Isabel Moreira

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910817278003321
• Autore: Moreira Isabel
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2010; ©2010
• ISBN: 0-19-937501-1; 0-19-973604-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
• Disciplina: 236/.509015
• Soggetti: Purgatory - History of doctrines - Early church, ca. 30-600
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; 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; Notes; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; UV; W
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.