Sacred fictions : holy women and hagiography in late antiquity /

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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 w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coon, Lynda L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1997.
Colección:Middle Ages series.
Temas:
To 1500
Women in Christianity > History > Early church, ca. 30-600.
Women in Christianity > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Christian women saints > Biography > History and criticism.
Christian hagiography > History > To 1500.
Femmes dans le christianisme > Histoire > ca 30-600 (Église primitive)
Femmes dans le christianisme > Histoire > 600-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Saintes chrétiennes > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Christian hagiography
Christian women saints > Biography
Women in Christianity > Early church
Women in Christianity > Middle Ages
Biography
Biographies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 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
  • 5. "Through the Eye of a Needle"
  • 6. Civilizing Merovingian Gaul
  • Conclusion: Sacred Fictions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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