France. Western Europe. Late antiquity, early middle ages, Merovingian history, History of Religion, Theology, Patristic authors, Christianity, Purgatory, Hell, Visions, Hagiography, medieval social and cultural history, medieval views of death and the afterlife, saints cults, material culture. Interests include periodization studies, archaeology and material culture.

Heaven's Purge: Purgatory in Late Antiquity. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Paperback edition 2014. Published, 11/17/2010.
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Hell and Its Afterlife: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2010. Published, 11/17/2010.
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Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000. Published, 04/2000.
"Purgatory and History: Augustine and Bede" in Michael Root and James J. Buckley eds. Heaven, Hell, ... And Purgatory? (Cascade Books, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2015) pages 34-46. Published, 08/01/2015.
"Hector of Marseilles is Purged: Political Rehabilitation and Guilt by Association in the Seventh-Century Passion of St. Leudegar of of Autun." Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae (QMAN) vol. 17 (2012) 191-209. Published, 03/2013.
Moreira and Toscano: “Keeping Ajar the Gates of Hell,” introductory essay to book entitled Hell and Its Afterlife. Published, 12/2010.
“Plucking Sinners out of Hell: Saint Martin of Tours’ Resurrection Miracle,” in I. Moreira and M. Toscano, eds. Hell and Its Afterlife: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010). Published, 12/2010.
Van Egmond, Wolfert S., Conversing with the Saints. Communication in Pre-Carolingian Hagiography from Auxerre. Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 2006. Speculum 84.2 (2009) 503-5. Published, 04/01/2009.
"Violence, Purification and Mercy in the Late Antique Afterlife," in Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practice, ed. H. A. Drake (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) 147-56. Published, 01/2006.
"Dreams and Divination in early Medieval Canonical and Narrative Sources: The Question of Clerical Control." Catholic Historical Review 89 (2003) 607-28. Published, 04/2003.
"Living in the Palaces of Love: Love and the Soul in a Vision of St. Aldegunde of Maubeuge (c.635-84).". Quidditas 19 (1998) 143-65. Published, 04/1998.
"St. Augustine's Three Visions and Three Heavens in some Early Medieval Florilegia," Vivarium 34 (1996) 1-14. Published, 04/1996.
"Provisatrix Optima: Radegund of Poitiers's Relic Petitions to the East," Journal of Medieval History 19 (1993) 285-305. Published, 04/1993.
Isabel Moreira (2018). The Last Day: Judgment, Purification, and Transformation. Oxford University Press. Accepted, 02/22/2018.
Isabel Moreira (2017). “Visions and the Merovingian Afterlife,” . Oxford University Press. Accepted, 08/01/2017.