This isn't quite what you were asking for, but Douglas Brooks-Davies
discusses Una as 'the principle of indivisibility' and as evocative of 'one
Lord, one Faith, one Baptism' in The Spenser Encyclopedia, 'Una', p. 705.
On Oct 19 2009, James Broaddus wrote:
>Were there associations of holiness with wholeness before Berger's 1966-67
>essay on Book I?
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>Berger says
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> The image [of the New Jerusalem] identifies holiness with wholeness, that
> is, with the oneness of shared life, of communion and community. Having
> traveled so long by himself, Redcross now begins to join and to be joined
> by real others; the sacramental atmosphere of the dragon fight will
> further prepare him for union and Una, while the whole the image of Eden
> will suggest the character of wholeness.
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>Since then, has anyone other than Nohrnberg connected the two words?
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>Nohrnberg says
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>Thus Spenser's knight of holiness is often presented to us in terms of his
>health, or his wholeness: etymologically, *holiness* in Hebrew is *set
>apartness*, but in English it is *wholeness*. *Analogy*, 279.
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>Jim Broaddus
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