The Birth of Purgatory by Jacques Le Goff, Arthur Goldhammer

The Birth of Purgatory

Jacques Le Goff, Arthur Goldhammer

440 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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...

Read more

Community Reviews Summary of 11 reviews

Moods

informative 100%

Pace

slow 100%

Average rating

3.84

See all reviews...

Content Warnings

This book doesn't have any content warnings yet!

If you're the author of this book and want to add author-approved content warnings, please email us at [email protected] to request the content warning form.