Sacred Fictions: Holy Women And Hagiography In Late Antiquity (The Middle Ages Series),New Nosler Want To Finally Understand Exposure

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The Manic Intelligence Of Richard Ben Cramerilluminates An Extraordinary Range Of Subjects

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'This Special 50Th Anniversary Edition Comes With A Newly Recorded Cd Of The Author Reading The 29 Poems Of The Title Section Of A Coney Island Of The Mind As Well As Selections From Pictures Of The Gone World

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Sacred Fictions: Holy Women And Hagiography In Late Antiquity (The Middle Ages Series),New Nosler Want To Finally Understand ExposureLate 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