archive is accumulations of historical records or the physical place they are located.
accumulations of historical records or the physical place they are located?
archive
an archive is an accumulation of historical records or the physical place they are located. archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of that person or organization. professional archivists and historians generally understand archives to be records that have been naturally and necessarily generated as a product of regular legal, commercial, administrative, or social activities. they have been metaphorically defined as "the secretions of an organism", and are distinguished from documents that have been consciously written or created to communicate a particular message to posterity.
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medievalist jacques le goff defines the "birth of purgatory", i.e. the conception of purgatory as a physical place, rather than merely as a state, as occurring between 1170 and 1200. le goff acknowledged that the notion of purification after death, without the medieval notion of a physical place, existed in antiquity, arguing specifically that clement of alexandria, and his pupil origen of alexandria, derived their view from a combination of biblical teachings, though he considered vague concepts of purifying and punishing fire to predate christianity. le goff also considered peter the lombard (d. 1160), in expounding on the teachings of st. augustine and gregory the great, to have contributed significantly to the birth of purgatory in the sense of a physical place.
history of purgatory