Heaven's purge purgatory in late antiquity. - Moreira, Isabel (New York Oxford University Press, 2010)
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.
Keywords: Purgatory -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600; 236.5 -- Vagevuur