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Sacred fictions [[electronic resource] ] : holy women and hagiography in late antiquity / / Lynda L. Coon



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Autore: Coon Lynda L Visualizza persona
Titolo: Sacred fictions [[electronic resource] ] : holy women and hagiography in late antiquity / / Lynda L. Coon Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1997
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (253 p.)
Disciplina: 270/.082
Soggetto topico: Women in Christianity - History - Early church, ca. 30-600
Women in Christianity - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500
Christian women saints - History and criticism
Christian hagiography - History - To 1500
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-219) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. 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 -- 5. “Through the Eye of a Needle” -- 6. Civilizing Merovingian Gaul -- Conclusion: Sacred Fictions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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 and monastic writings. Women are recurrently figured as repentant desert hermits, wealthy widows, or cloistered ascetic nuns, and biblical discourse informs the narrative content, rhetorical strategies, and symbolic meanings of these texts in complex and multivalent ways. If hagiographers made their women saints walk on water, resurrect the dead, or consecrate the Eucharist, they also curbed the power of women by teaching that the daughters of Eve must make their bodies impenetrable through militant chastity or spiritual exile and must eradicate self-indulgence through ascetic attire or philanthropy. The windows the sacred fiction of holy women open on the past are far from transparent; driven by both literary invention and moral imperative, the stories they tell helped shape Western gender constructs that have survived into modern times.
Titolo autorizzato: Sacred fictions  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-21155-6
9786613211552
0-8122-0167-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910457626003321
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Serie: Middle Ages series.