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Lynda L. Coon - Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity - 9780812233711 - V9780812233711
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Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity

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Description for Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity Hardback. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: DSK; HRC; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 533.

Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynda Coon unpacks these paradoxical representations to reveal the construction and circumscription of women's roles in the early Christian centuries.
Coon discerns three distinct paradigms for female sanctity in saints' lives and patristic and monastic writings. Women are recurrently figured as repentant desert hermits, wealthy widows, or cloistered ascetic nuns, and biblical discourse informs the narrative content, rhetorical strategies, and symbolic meanings of these texts in complex and multivalent ways. If ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
The Middle Ages Series
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812233711
SKU
V9780812233711
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About Lynda L. Coon
By Lynda L. Coon

Reviews for Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity
"I would recommend this volume to those interested in the study of female sacred biography. It is a solid study of broad and heterogeneous textual traditions; it proposes interesting readings of female vitae, and illustrates the richness of these documents."
Catholic Historical Review
"One of the best works on hagiography to apear in the last decade."
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