Sacred fictions : holy women and hagiography in late antiquity / Lynda L. Coon.
Sacred fictions : holy women and hagiography in late antiquity / Lynda L. Coon.
Sacred fictions : holy women and hagiography in late antiquity / Lynda L. Coon.
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997.
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T0375654
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English
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xxiii, 228 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Hagiography and Sacred Models -- 2. Gender, Hagiography, and the Bible -- 3. The Rhetorical Uses of Clothing in the Lives of Sacred Males -- 4. God's Holy Harlots: The Redemptive Lives of Pelagia of Antioch and Mary of Egypt -- 5. "Through the Eye of a Needle": Wealth and Poverty in the Lives of...
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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997.
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Pennsylvania
Date Published
c1997.
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Summary
Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, examplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynda Coon unpacks these paradoxial representations to reveal the construction and circumscription of women's roles in the early Christian centuries. The...
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Sacred fictions : holy women and hagiography in late antiquity / Lynda L. Coon.
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The Middle Ages series.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-219) and index.
Transferred from N270.082/1.
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c1997.
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T0375654
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74VMjwyy6Gm3
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ISBN
0812233719 (alk. paper)
9780812233711 (alk. paper)
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270.082
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991000979359702626
