Document Type
Class Paper
Publication Date
5-5-2020
Abstract
People have believed in something like purgatory for thousands of years. Their specific ideas reflect their cultural environments and their personal feelings about the human condition. By looking at the dream vision genre over the past 2,000 years we may get a better idea of the development of the doctrine of purgatory and, with it, how people have understood themselves in history.
Recommended Citation
Douglass, Tucker, "Dream Visions as a Safe Space for Purgatorial Speculation" (2020). History Class Publications. 59.
https://scholarlycommons.obu.edu/history/59
Comments
This paper was presented as part of the History Research Seminar (HIST 4603) taught by Dr. Myra Houser.