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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Document |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kim Haines-Eitzen |
ISBN: | 9780199918140 0199918147 9780195171297 0195171292 |
OCLC Number: | 773837628 |
Description: | 1 online resource (XVI, 197 p. :) : ill |
Contents: | Introduction ; Part One: Women Writing and Reading in Early Christianity and Late Antiquity ; 1. Women Writing, Writing for Women: Authors, Scribes, Book-Lenders, and Patrons ; 2. Reading, not Eating: Women Readers in Late Ancient Christian Asceticism ; 3. Women's Literature? The Case of the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles ; Part Two: Sexual/Textual Politics and Late Ancient Asceticism ; 4. Sinners and Saints, Silent and Submissive? The Textual/Sexual Transformation of Female Characters ; 5. "First Among All Women": The Story of Thecla in Textual Transmission and Iconographic Remains ; 6. Contesting the Ascetic Language of Eros: Textual Fluidity in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles ; Conclusion ; Bibliography |
Responsibility: | Kim Haines-Eitzen. |
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The book is written in a lively and witty style which engages the reader and draws her into the world which Haines-Eitzen describes. * Morwenna Ludlow, University of Exeter *
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