Perpetua's passions : multidisciplinary approaches to the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis / edited by Jan N. Bremmer, Marco Formisano.
Contributor(s): Bremmer, Jan N [editor.]
| Formisano, Marco [editor.]
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TextPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: viii, 383 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199561889 (hardback); 0199561885 (hardback)Subject(s): Perpetua, Saint, -203. Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis | Christian martyrs -- Tunisia -- HistoryBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BR1720.P42 P47 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182903361158 |
Selections originally presented at a conference organized at Humboldt University, Berlin, July 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Perpetua's Passions: A Brief Introduction / Jan N. Bremmer and Marco Formisano -- The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity / translated by Joseph Farrell and Craig Williams -- Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis / edited by Joseph Farrell and Craig Williams -- Felicitas: The Martyrdom of a Young African Woman / Jan N. Bremmer -- Perpetua's Gender : A Latinist Reads the 'Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis' / Craig Williams -- 'Femina liberaliter instituta': Some Thoughts on a Martyr's Liberal Education / Walter Ameling -- 'Vibia Perpetua': An Indecent Woman / Hanne Sigismund-Nielsen -- The 'Passio Perpetuae' and Jewish Martyrdom: The Motif of Motherly Love / Jan Willem van Henten -- Perpetual Contest / Mieke Bal -- Maternity and Sainthood in the Medieval Perpetua Legend / Julia Weitbrecht -- The Editor's Prime Objective: 'haec in aedificationem Ecclesiae legere' / Jan den Boeft -- Exemplum and Sacrifice, Blood Testimony and Written Testimony: Lucretia and Perpetua as Transitional Figures in the Cultural History of Martyrdom / Sigrid Weigel, translated by Joel Golb -- Visions, Prophecy and Authority in the 'Passio Perpetuae' / Katharina Waldner -- The Conquest of the Real by the Imaginary: on the 'Passio Perpetuae' / Hartmut Bohme, translated by Jeanne Riou -- Socrates' Passion / Giulia Sissa -- 'Nova exempla': The New Testament of the 'Passio Perpetuae' / Luca Bagetto -- The 'Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis' and Montanism? / Christoph Markschies -- Perpetua's Martyrdom and the Metamorphosis of Narrative / David Konstan -- The Canonization of Perpetua / Joseph Farrell -- The Power of Uncertainty: Interpreting the 'Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas' / Philippe Mesnard -- Perpetua's Prisons: Notes on the Margins of Literature / Marco Formisano -- Memories of the Martyrs: Reflections from a Catholic Girlhood / Marina Warner.
