Perpetua's passions: multidisciplinary approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis

This 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: th...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford [u.a.] Oxford Univ. Press 2012
Edition:1. publ.
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Online Access:BSB01
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Summary:This 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.
Item Description:Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2015
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 383 S.)
ISBN:9780191804397
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199561889.001.0001

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