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Sacred Fictions

Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity

  • Hardback
  • 256 pages
  • Publisher: University Of Pennsylvania Press
  • 16.6 x 24.2 x 2.3 cm

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The emphasis of this study is not on the historical lives of the subject saints, but on the theological and didactic agendas of their authors. Coon (history, U. of Arkansas) demonstrates how women's hagiography teaches that the daughters of Eve must make their bodies impenetrable through militant chastity, self-entombment, spiritual exile, or insti
Sacred Fictions and The Essential History of Christianity
The Essential History of ChristianitySacred Fictions
  • Author

    Lynda L. Coon

  • Book Format

    hardback

  • Publisher

    University Of Pennsylvania Press

  • Published

    June 1997

  • Weight

    577g

  • Page Count

    256

  • Dimensions

    16.6 x 24.2 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780812233711

  • ISBN-10

    0812233719

  • Eden Code

    1010530

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