Format:
Online-Ressource (231 p)
ISBN:
9780415918374
Content:
Perpetua's Passion studies the third-century martyrdom of a young woman and places it in the intellectual and social context of her age. Conflicting ideas of religion, family and gender are explored as Salisbury follows Perpetua from her youth in a wealthy Roman household to her imprisonment and death in the arena
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Perpetua's Passion; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; one Rome; Home and Hearth; Empire and Emperor; Longing for the Divine; two Carthage; The City; Life and Culture; Sacrifice and Suicide; three Christian Community; Origins; Presence of the Divine; Christian Life; Confrontation with Authority; four Prison; Prison and Trial; Dreams and Visions; The Confessors' Dreams; Final Preparations; five The Arena; The Amphitheater; The Spectators; The Martyrs; six Aftermath; Rome and Carthage; The Christian Community; Memory and the Text; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781136050862
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415918367
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Perpetua's Passion : The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman
Language:
English
Keywords:
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