Coon, Lynda L. <br/><br/>
Sacred Fictions :  Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (253 pages) 
 - The Middle Ages Series .
 - The Middle Ages Series .
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812201673 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women in Christianity-History-Early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Women in Christianity-History-Middle Ages, 600-1500.<br/>Christian women saints-Biography-History and criticism.<br/>Christian hagiography-History-To 1500.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BR195.W6 -- C66 1997eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>270/.082