birth of purgatory The

by J. Le Goff

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236.5

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Noting that the doctrine of Purgatory does not appear in the Latin theology of the West before the late twelfth century, the author identifies the profound social and intellectual changes which caused its widespread acceptance.

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Jacques Le Goff is by all accounts a very important historian. This book seems to be a collection of undigested reading notes on obscure theologians, except that undigested reading notes would probably have been better organized.
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