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Author Salisbury, Joyce E.

Title Perpetua's passion : the death and memory of a young Roman woman / Joyce E. Salisbury.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 1997.

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Description 1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index.
Summary Tells the story of Vibia Perpetua's arrest and sentence to death after she converted to Christianity, and details the differences between Christianity and the pagan Roman religions of the early third century.
Contents 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.
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Language Interwoven in the text is an English translation of the Latin work the Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity.
Subject Perpetua, Saint, -203.
Perpetua, Saint, -203.
Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis.
Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis.
Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis.
Passion de Perpétue et de Félicité.
Christian saints -- Tunisia -- Biography.
Christian saints.
Tunisia.
Christian martyrs -- Tunisia -- Biography.
Christian martyrs.
Christian women saints -- Tunisia -- Biography.
Christian women saints.
Christian women martyrs -- Tunisia -- Biography.
Christian women martyrs.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Salisbury, Joyce E. Perpetua's passion. New York : Routledge, 1997 0415918367 (DLC) 97021973 (OCoLC)37030823
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