Title: Le purgatoire de Saint Patrick
Description: Espiritual Seint Patriz" is considered the first literary work dedicated to purgatory, essential place of the Western imagination of the hereafter and received as the great innovation of the 12th-13th centuries. The present publication also proposes all the versified French texts on the subject as well as the narrative, in Latin, of the knight Owein's journey in the other world.
Subjects: Early works to 1800, Purgatory, Poetry