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Perpetua's Passions: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis
Author(s): Jan N. Bremmer (Editor), Marco Formisano
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publication Date: 9 Feb. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 394 pages
- ISBN-10: 0199561885
- ISBN-13: 9780199561889
Book Description
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.
