Birth of Purgatory

Name: Birth of Purgatory
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ISBN: 9780226470832

ISBN-10: 0226470830

ISBN-13: 9780226470832

Edition: 1984

Authors: Jacques Le Goff, Arthur Goldhammer

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In The Birth of Purgatory, Jacques Le Goff, the brilliant medievalist and renowned Annales 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 purgatorium did not exist until then. He shows that the growth of a belief in an intermediate place between Heaven and Hell was closely bound up with profound changes in the social and intellectual reality of the Middle Ages. Throughout, Le Goff makes use of…

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List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 1984
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/15/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Arthur Goldhammer is the translator for numerous books including Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement, Algerian Chronicles, The Society of Equals, and Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.



Acknowledgments


The Third Place



The Hereafter before Purgatory



Ancient Imaginings



The Fathers of Purgatory



The Early Middle Ages: Doctrinal Stagnation and the Riot of Imagination



The Twelfth Century: The Birth of Purgatory The Century of the Great Advance



The Fire of Purgatory



""Locus Purgatorius"": A Place for Purgation



Purgatory between Sicily and Ireland



The Logic of Purgatory



The Triumph of Purgatory



The Scholastic Systematization



Social Victo