Perpetua's Passions
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 February 2012
- ISBN 9780199561889
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages394 pages
- Size 240x162x28 mm
- Weight 746 g
- Language English 0
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A collection of studies about the Passion of Perpetua, the diary written by the young Christian martyr Perpetua. This intriguing text is edited and translated before a team of distinguished scholars examine it from a wide range of perspectives: literary, narratological, historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical.
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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.
All participants evidently took their brief with utmost seriousness, producing a rich and suggestive set of close engagements, demonstrating just how creative 'multidisciplinarity' can be.
Table of Contents:
Perpetua's Passions: A Brief Introduction
The Passio Perpetuae': A Working Text and Translation
I. The Martyr and her Gender
Felicitas: The Martyrdom of a Young African Woman
Perpetua's Gender. A Latinist Reads the `Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis'
`Femina liberaliter instituta': Some Thoughts on a Martyr's Liberal Education
`Vibia Perpetua': An Indecent Woman
The `Passio Perpetuae' and Jewish Martyrdom: The Motif of Motherly Love
Perpetual Contest
Maternity and Sainthood in the Medieval Perpetua Legend
II. Authority and Testimony
The Editor's Prime Objective: `haec in aedificationem Ecclesiae legere'
Exemplum and Sacrifice, Blood Testimony and Written Testimony: Lucretia and Perpetua as Transitional Figures in the Cultural History of Martyrdom
Visions, Prophecy and Authority in the `Passio Perpetuae'
The Conquest of the Real by the Imaginary: on the `Passio Perpetuae'
Socrates' Passion
`Nova exempla': The New Testament of the `Passio Perpetuae'
III. The Text, the Canon, and the Margins
The `Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis' and Montanism?
Perpetua's Martyrdom and the Metamorphosis of Narrative
The Canonization of Perpetua
The Power of Uncertainty: Interpreting the `Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas'
Perpetua's Prisons: Notes on the Margins of Literature
Epilogue
No Bad Stories: The American Media Military Relationship
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