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Perpetua's Passions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis

Jan N. Bremmer and Marco Formisano

Abstract

This book 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 this book examines from a wide range of perspectives: literary, narratological, historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical viewpoints follow upon a newly edited text a ... More

Keywords: Perpetua, Christian martyr, Saturus, diary, Passion of Perpetua

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2012 Print ISBN-13: 9780199561889
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015 DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199561889.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Jan N. Bremmer, editor
Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies, University of Groningen

Marco Formisano, editor
Research Fellow, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Perpetua’s Passions

Jan N. Bremmer and Marco Formisano

The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity

translated by Joseph Farrell and Craig Williams

Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis1

Edited by Joseph Farrell and Craig Williams

Part I The Martyr and her Gender

I Felicitas

Jan N. Bremmer

II Perpetua’s Gender. A Latinist Reads the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis

Craig Williams

III Femina Liberaliter Instituta—Some Thoughts on a Martyr’s Liberal Education

Walter Ameling

IV Vibia Perpetua—An Indecent Woman

Hanne Sigismund-Nielsen

V The Passio Perpetuae and Jewish Martyrdom

Jan Willem van Henten

VI Perpetual Contest

Mieke Bal

VII Maternity and Sainthood in the Medieval Perpetua Legend

Julia Weitbrecht

Part II Authority and Testimony

VIII The Editor’s Prime Objective

Jan den Boeft

IX Exemplum and Sacrifice, Blood Testimony and Written Testimony

Sigrid Weigel, translated by Joel Golb

X Visions, Prophecy, and Authority in the Passio Perpetuae

Katharina Waldner

XI The Conquest of the Real by the Imaginary

Hartmut Böhme, translated by Jeanne Riou

XII Socrates’ Passion

Giulia Sissa

XIII Nova Exempla. The New Testament of the Passio Perpetuae

Luca Bagetto

Part III The Text, the Canon, and the Margins

XIV The Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis and Montanism?

Christoph Markschies

XV Perpetua’s Martyrdom and the Metamorphosis of Narrative

David Konstan

XVI The Canonization of Perpetua

Joseph Farrell

XVII The Power of Uncertainty

Philippe Mesnard

XVIII Perpetua’s Prisons

Marco Formisano

XIX Memories of the Martyrs

Marina Warner

End Matter

Notes on Contributors

Bibliography of the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis

Index of Names, Subjects and Passages