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"...The saints' lives in Alice-Mary Talbot's collection take up the question of how women could attain sanctification in the period from the 5th to the 13th centuries, a time when 'few women came to be considered holy.' ...In the Lives made available by Alice-Mary Talbot and her collaborators in 'Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation,' virtue becomes a contest in which both sexes can compete; coping with domestic violence and the trials of child-rearing can be ways of finding favour with God.'Talbot, Alice-Mary is the author of 'Holy Women of Byzantium Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation' with ISBN 9780884022480 and ISBN 088402248X.
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