This volume gathers all available evidence for the martyrdoms of Perpetua and Felicitas, two Christian women who became, in the centuries after their deaths in 203 CE, revered throughout the Roman world. Whereas they are now known primarily through a popular third-century account, numerous lesser known texts attest to the profound place they held in the lives of Christians in late antiquity. This book brings together narratives in their original languages with accompanying English translations, including many related entries from calendars, martyrologies, sacramentaries, and chronicles, as wel... Read More
This volume gathers all available evidence for the martyrdoms of Perpetua and Felicitas, two Christian women who became, in the centuries after their deaths in 203 CE, revered throughout the Roman world. Whereas they are now known primarily through a popular third-century account, numerous lesser known texts attest to the profound place they held in the lives of Christians in late antiquity. This book brings together narratives in their original languages with accompanying English translations, including many related entries from calendars, martyrologies, sacramentaries, and chronicles, as wel... Read More
This volume gathers all available evidence for the martyrdoms of Perpetua and Felicitas, two Christian women who became, in the centuries after their deaths in 203 CE, revered throughout the Roman world. Whereas they are now known primarily through a popular third-century account, numerous lesser known texts attest to the profound place they held in the lives of Christians in late antiquity. This book brings together narratives in their original languages with accompanying English translations, including many related entries from calendars, martyrologies, sacramentaries, and chronicles, as well as artistic representations and inscriptions. As a whole, the collection offers readers a robust view of the veneration of Perpetua and Felicitas over the course of six centuries, examining the diverse ways that a third-century Latin tradition was appreciated, appropriated, and transformed as it circulated throughout the late antique world.
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Price: $95.00
Pages: 380
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 10th March 2021
ISBN: 9780520976498
Format: eBook
BISACs: RELIGION / Christianity / History HISTORY / Ancient / General RELIGION / Ancient
Author Bio
L. Stephanie Cobb is the George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond. She is also author of Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts.
L. Stephanie Cobb is the George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond. She is also author of Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments General Introduction
Part One. The Accounts of the Martyrdom 1. Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas (Latin) 2. Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas (Greek) 3. Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas A Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas B
Part Two. The Interpretations of the Martyrdom 4. Tertullian On the Soul 55 (excerpt)
5. Augustine Sermon 280 Sermon 281 Sermon 282 Sermon 282auct On the Nature and Origin of the Soul (excerpt) Expositions on the Psalms (excerpt) Sermon 159A
6. Pseudo-Augustine Sermon 394 Sermon 394A On the Feast Day of Saint Victoria (Mai 66)
7. Treatise on the Feast Day of Perpetua and Felicitas
8. Quodvultdeus On the Barbaric Age I
9. Pseudo-Fulgentius On Job and Blessed Perpetua
10. References to the Passion in Other Martyr Accounts Martyrdom of Polyeuctus Martyrdom of Procopius of Scythopolis
Part Three. The Celebrations of the Martyrs 11. Martyrs' Burials of the Codex-Calendar of 354 12. Syriac Martyrology 13. Liber genealogus 14. Martyrology of Jerome 15. Fasti Vindobonenses priores and posteriores 16. Prosper Chronicle 17. Calendar of Willibrord 18. The Gelasian Sacramentary 19. Bede Martyrology of Bede On the Reckoning of Time 20. Martyrology of Tallaght 21. Félire of Oengus the Culdee
Part Four. The Representations of the Martyrs 22. Arcosolium of the Coemeterium Maius (Rome, Italy) 23. Basilica Maiorum (Tunis, Tunisia) and Victor of Vita 24. Arcosolium of Saints Marcus and Marcellianus (Rome, Italy) 25. Sarcophagus (La Bureba, Spain) 26. Basilica Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna, Italy) 27. Archiepiscopal Chapel (Ravenna, Italy) 28. Basilica Eufrasiana (Poreč, Croatia)
This volume gathers all available evidence for the martyrdoms of Perpetua and Felicitas, two Christian women who became, in the centuries after their deaths in 203 CE, revered throughout the Roman world. Whereas they are now known primarily through a popular third-century account, numerous lesser known texts attest to the profound place they held in the lives of Christians in late antiquity. This book brings together narratives in their original languages with accompanying English translations, including many related entries from calendars, martyrologies, sacramentaries, and chronicles, as well as artistic representations and inscriptions. As a whole, the collection offers readers a robust view of the veneration of Perpetua and Felicitas over the course of six centuries, examining the diverse ways that a third-century Latin tradition was appreciated, appropriated, and transformed as it circulated throughout the late antique world.
Price: $95.00
Pages: 380
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date: 10th March 2021
ISBN: 9780520976498
Format: eBook
BISACs: RELIGION / Christianity / History HISTORY / Ancient / General RELIGION / Ancient
L. Stephanie Cobb is the George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond. She is also author of Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts.
L. Stephanie Cobb is the George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond. She is also author of Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments General Introduction
Part One. The Accounts of the Martyrdom 1. Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas (Latin) 2. Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas (Greek) 3. Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas A Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas B
Part Two. The Interpretations of the Martyrdom 4. Tertullian On the Soul 55 (excerpt)
5. Augustine Sermon 280 Sermon 281 Sermon 282 Sermon 282auct On the Nature and Origin of the Soul (excerpt) Expositions on the Psalms (excerpt) Sermon 159A
6. Pseudo-Augustine Sermon 394 Sermon 394A On the Feast Day of Saint Victoria (Mai 66)
7. Treatise on the Feast Day of Perpetua and Felicitas
8. Quodvultdeus On the Barbaric Age I
9. Pseudo-Fulgentius On Job and Blessed Perpetua
10. References to the Passion in Other Martyr Accounts Martyrdom of Polyeuctus Martyrdom of Procopius of Scythopolis
Part Three. The Celebrations of the Martyrs 11. Martyrs' Burials of the Codex-Calendar of 354 12. Syriac Martyrology 13. Liber genealogus 14. Martyrology of Jerome 15. Fasti Vindobonenses priores and posteriores 16. Prosper Chronicle 17. Calendar of Willibrord 18. The Gelasian Sacramentary 19. Bede Martyrology of Bede On the Reckoning of Time 20. Martyrology of Tallaght 21. Félire of Oengus the Culdee
Part Four. The Representations of the Martyrs 22. Arcosolium of the Coemeterium Maius (Rome, Italy) 23. Basilica Maiorum (Tunis, Tunisia) and Victor of Vita 24. Arcosolium of Saints Marcus and Marcellianus (Rome, Italy) 25. Sarcophagus (La Bureba, Spain) 26. Basilica Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna, Italy) 27. Archiepiscopal Chapel (Ravenna, Italy) 28. Basilica Eufrasiana (Poreč, Croatia)
