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BL
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| Record Number
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701347
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b523536
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| Main Entry
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Coon, Lynda L.
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| Title & Author
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Sacred fictions : : holy women and hagiography in late antiquity /\ Lynda L. Coon.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia :: University of Pennsylvania Press,, c1997.
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| Series Statement
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The Middle Ages series
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| Page. NO
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xxiii, 228 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0812233719 (alk. paper)
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: 9780812233711 (alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-219) and index.
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| Contents
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Hagiography and sacred models -- Gender, hagiography, and the Bible -- The rhetorical uses of clothing in the lives of sacred males -- God's holy harlots: the redemptive lives of Pelagia of Antioch and Mary of Egypt -- "Through the eye of a needle": wealth and poverty in the lives of Helena, Paula, and Melania the Younger -- Civilizing Merovingian Gaul: the lives of Monegund, Radegund, and Balthild -- Conclusion: sacred fictions.
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Christian hagiography-- History-- To 1500.
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Christian women saints-- Biography-- History and criticism.
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Women in Christianity-- History-- Early church, ca. 30-600.
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Women in Christianity-- History-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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| LC Classification
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BR195.W6C66 1997
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