Perpetua's Passions is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and supplied them with an introduction and epilogue: the so-called Passion of Perpetua. The result is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic works of antiquity, which the present volume examines from a wide range of perspectives: literary, narratological, historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical viewpoints follow upon a…mehr
Perpetua's Passions is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and supplied them with an introduction and epilogue: the so-called Passion of Perpetua. The result is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic works of antiquity, which the present volume examines from a wide range of perspectives: literary, narratological, historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical viewpoints follow upon a newly edited text and English translation (by Joseph Farrell and Craig Williams). This innovative treatment by a number of distinguished scholars not only complements its unique subject, but constitutes a kind of laboratory of new approaches to ancient texts.
Jan N. Bremmer is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen. Marco Formisano is Research Fellow at Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin.
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* Perpetua's Passions: A Brief Introduction * The Passio Perpetuae': A Working Text and Translation * I. The Martyr and her Gender * 1: Jan N. Bremmer: Felicitas: The Martyrdom of a Young African Woman * 2: Craig Williams: Perpetua's Gender. A Latinist Reads the `Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis' * 3: Walter Ameling: `Femina liberaliter instituta': Some Thoughts on a Martyr's Liberal Education * 4: Hanne Sigismund Nielsen: `Vibia Perpetua': An Indecent Woman * 5: Jan Willem van Henten: The `Passio Perpetuae' and Jewish Martyrdom: The Motif of Motherly Love * 6: Mieke Bal: Perpetual Contest * 7: Julia Weitbrecht: Maternity and Sainthood in the Medieval Perpetua Legend * II. Authority and Testimony * 8: Jan den Boeft: The Editor's Prime Objective: `haec in aedificationem Ecclesiae legere' * 9: Sigrid Weigel: Exemplum and Sacrifice, Blood Testimony and Written Testimony: Lucretia and Perpetua as Transitional Figures in the Cultural History of Martyrdom * 10: Katharina Waldner: Visions, Prophecy and Authority in the `Passio Perpetuae' * 11: Hartmut Böhme: The Conquest of the Real by the Imaginary: on the `Passio Perpetuae' * 12: Giulia Sissa: Socrates' Passion * 13: Luca Bagetto: `Nova exempla': The New Testament of the `Passio Perpetuae' * III. The Text, the Canon, and the Margins * 14: Christoph Markschies: The `Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis' and Montanism? * 15: David Konstan: Perpetua's Martyrdom and the Metamorphosis of Narrative * 16: Joseph Farrell: The Canonization of Perpetua * 17: Philippe Mesnard: The Power of Uncertainty: Interpreting the `Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas' * 18: Marco Formisano: Perpetua's Prisons: Notes on the Margins of Literature * Epilogue
* Perpetua's Passions: A Brief Introduction * The Passio Perpetuae': A Working Text and Translation * I. The Martyr and her Gender * 1: Jan N. Bremmer: Felicitas: The Martyrdom of a Young African Woman * 2: Craig Williams: Perpetua's Gender. A Latinist Reads the `Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis' * 3: Walter Ameling: `Femina liberaliter instituta': Some Thoughts on a Martyr's Liberal Education * 4: Hanne Sigismund Nielsen: `Vibia Perpetua': An Indecent Woman * 5: Jan Willem van Henten: The `Passio Perpetuae' and Jewish Martyrdom: The Motif of Motherly Love * 6: Mieke Bal: Perpetual Contest * 7: Julia Weitbrecht: Maternity and Sainthood in the Medieval Perpetua Legend * II. Authority and Testimony * 8: Jan den Boeft: The Editor's Prime Objective: `haec in aedificationem Ecclesiae legere' * 9: Sigrid Weigel: Exemplum and Sacrifice, Blood Testimony and Written Testimony: Lucretia and Perpetua as Transitional Figures in the Cultural History of Martyrdom * 10: Katharina Waldner: Visions, Prophecy and Authority in the `Passio Perpetuae' * 11: Hartmut Böhme: The Conquest of the Real by the Imaginary: on the `Passio Perpetuae' * 12: Giulia Sissa: Socrates' Passion * 13: Luca Bagetto: `Nova exempla': The New Testament of the `Passio Perpetuae' * III. The Text, the Canon, and the Margins * 14: Christoph Markschies: The `Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis' and Montanism? * 15: David Konstan: Perpetua's Martyrdom and the Metamorphosis of Narrative * 16: Joseph Farrell: The Canonization of Perpetua * 17: Philippe Mesnard: The Power of Uncertainty: Interpreting the `Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas' * 18: Marco Formisano: Perpetua's Prisons: Notes on the Margins of Literature * Epilogue
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