Heaven's purge : purgatory in late antiquity /
Moreira, Isabel.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Purgatory in early Christian and patristic thought -- Of sons and slaves : violence and correction in the afterlife -- O purgatorium caeleste! : purging body and soul at St. Martin's shrine -- Purgation in the sixth and seventh centuries -- Purgatory, penitentials, and the Irish question -- Purgatory in Bede and Boniface -- Missionary eschatology and the politics of certainty -- Barbarians, law codes, and purgatory.
Purgatory