![]() | Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity Subjects: Women in Christianity -- History -- Early church ca. 30-600; Women in Chistianity -- History -- Middle Ages 600-1500; Christian women saints -- History; Christian hagiography -- History; Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynda Coon unpacks these paradoxical representations to reveal the construction and circumscription of women's roles in the early Christian centuries. |
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