Popular and scholarly medieval cultural traditions: notes in the margin of Jacques Le Goff's book
Aaron J. Gurevich
Starting with an analysis of the main theme Jacques Le Goff's La naissance du purgatoire (1981), author argues that purgatory existed in popular consiousness long before it was forced on notice theologians. It pressure, as were from below, culture day, which brought about theologians' transformation originally binary other world heaven and hell, into tertiary one, fully reflected Dante's Divine comedy, heaven, hell. Attention is drawn to importance two elements — scholarly or official medieval a whole. This paper, received September 1981, has been translated by Michael Rocks author's typescript. The editor responsible for some revision, preparing version accord journal's editorial conventions, this summary. grateful his help work revision.
Journal of Medieval History