Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-219) and index.
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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.
Christian women saints-- Biography-- History and criticism.
Women in Christianity-- History-- Early church, ca. 30-600.
Women in Christianity-- History-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.