Lynda L. Coon
This is a likely match — the affiliation was inferred from OpenAlex, ORCID, and web sources but has not been fully confirmed. Treat with appropriate caution.
Role not yet determined Is this you? Add your title
Also affiliated: University of Pennsylvania Press (1997–2011)
Research Areas
Links
Biography and Research Information
OverviewAI-generated summary
Lynda L. Coon's scholarship focuses on the study of historical religious texts and practices, particularly concerning women and the body in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Her publications explore the intersection of hagiography, religious belief, and lived experience, examining how sacred narratives shaped perceptions of the body and identity. Coon has investigated the construction of female sainthood and the role of women within early Christian communities, often analyzing the relationship between historical fact and religious interpretation. Her work also delves into the cultural and social dimensions of the body in historical contexts, with specific attention to how bodies were understood and represented in medieval societies. Coon has a h-index of 7 and has authored 39 publications with over 700 citations.
Metrics
- h-index: 7
- Publications: 40
- Citations: 711
Selected Publications
-
An Architect’s View of Privacy (2024)
-
Introduction to Human Privacy in Virtual and Physical Worlds (2024)
-
The Beginning of the Cult of Relics. By Robert Wiśniewski. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xiv + 258 pp. $93.00 cloth. (2020)
-
Merovingian Meditations on Jesus (2020)
-
The Architecture of the Ascetic Body (2020)
-
Racetrack to Salvation: The Circus, the Basilica, and the Martyr (2020)
-
<i>From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity</i>. By Kyle Harper. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. Pp. 316. $39.95.) (2015)
-
Janneke Raaijmakers. The Making of the Monastic Community of Fulda, c. 744–c. 900. (2014)
-
Liz Herbert McAvoy, <i>Medieval Anchoritisms: Gender, Space and the Solitary Life</i>. (Gender in the Middle Ages 6.) Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2011. Pp. ix, 201. $95. ISBN: 9781843842774. (2013)
-
<i>Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe</i>. Caroline T. Schroeder (2009)
-
Somatic Styles of the Early Middle Ages (2008)
-
<i>Creating Community with Food and Drink in Merovingian Gaul</i>. Bonnie Effros (2005)
-
<scp>Elizabeth Key Fowden</scp>. <i>The Barbarian Plain: Saint Sergius Between Rome and Iran</i>. (The Transformation of the Classical Heritage, number 28.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1999. Pp. xix, 227. $55.00 (2001)
-
BOOK REVIEWS (1992)
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
- Introduction to Human Privacy in Virtual and Physical Worlds
- An Architect’s View of Privacy
- Racetrack to Salvation: The Circus, the Basilica, and the Martyr
- An Architect’s View of Privacy
Similar Researchers
Based on overlapping research topics