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Hardcover The Life of Saint Helia: Critical Edition, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary Book

ISBN: 0199672636

ISBN13: 9780199672639

The Life of Saint Helia: Critical Edition, Translation, Introduction, and Commentary

The Life of Saint Helia, a late ancient Latin hagiography of uncertain provenance, is a remarkable and virtually unknown text, of which a critical edition and English translation appear here for the first time, accompanied by an introduction and commentary. Written predominately in dialogue format, the Life records a lengthy and highly polemical debate between a young girl Helia and her mother regarding the relative merits of virginity and marriage,...

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