TY - BOOK AU - Coon,Lynda L. TI - Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity T2 - The Middle Ages Series SN - 9780812201673 AV - BR195.W6 -- C66 1997eb U1 - 270/.082 PY - 1997/// CY - Philadelphia PB - University of Pennsylvania Press KW - Women in Christianity-History-Early church, ca. 30-600 KW - Women in Christianity-History-Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - Christian women saints-Biography-History and criticism KW - Christian hagiography-History-To 1500 KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - No detailed description available for "Sacred Fictions" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3441543 ER -