Perpetua's passions : multidisciplinary approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis /
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 introduct...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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 awide range of perspectives: literary, narratological, historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical viewpoints follow upon a n. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 383 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191617836 0191617830 1280593490 9781280593499 9780191804397 0191804398 9780191717833 0191717835 |