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Sacred Fictions

Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity [Hardback]

by Lynda L. Coon

Author
Lynda L. Coon
Book Format
hardback
Publisher
University Of Pennsylvania Press
Published
June 1997

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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