Perpetua's Passions

Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae Et Felicitatis
Herausgeber: Bremmer, Jan N; Formisano, Marco

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 757g
• ISBN-13: 9780199561889
• ISBN-10: 0199561885
• Artikelnr.: 33252905

Autorenporträt

Jan N. Bremmer is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Groningen. Marco Formisano is Research Fellow at Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

* 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