The Birth of Purgatory
<div>In <i>The Birth of Purgatory</i>, Jacques Le Goff, the brilliant medievalist and renowned <i>Annales</i> historian, is concerned not with theological discussion but with the growth of an idea, with the relation between belief and society, with mental structures, and with the historical role of the imagination. Le Goff argues that the doctrine of Purgatory did not appear in the Latin theology of the West before the late twelfth century, that the word <i>purgatorium</i> did not exist until then. He shows that the growth of a belief in an intermediate place between Heaven and Hell was closely bound…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-226-47083-2
- EAN: 9780226470832
- Produktnummer: 1535490
- Verlag: The University of Chicago Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
- Seitenangabe: 440 S.
- Masse: H27.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D0.0 cm 537 g
- Auflage: New ed
- Gewicht: 537
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
Jacques Le Goff is the author of Time, Work, and Culture, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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