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Sacred Fictions : Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1997Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (253 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812201673
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sacred FictionsDDC classification:
  • 270/.082
LOC classification:
  • BR195.W6 -- C66 1997eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I . 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 Helena, Paula, and Melania the Younger -- 6. Civilizing Merovingian Gaul: The Lives of Monegund, Radegund, and Balthild -- Conclusion: Sacred Fictions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- X.
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I . 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 Helena, Paula, and Melania the Younger -- 6. Civilizing Merovingian Gaul: The Lives of Monegund, Radegund, and Balthild -- Conclusion: Sacred Fictions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- X.

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