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The Birth of Purgatory (Paperback, New edition)
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The Birth of Purgatory (Paperback, New edition)
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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 a wealth of archival material, much of which he has
translated for the first time, inviting readers to examine evidence
from the writings of great, obscure, or anonymous theologians.
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