Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity

by Lynda L. Coon

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.

Coon discerns three distinct paradigms for female sanctity in saints' lives and patristic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812233719
• ISBN13: 9780812233711
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.5"