Overview

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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Author:   L. Stephanie Professor Cobb ,  Andrew S. Jacobs ,  L. Stephanie Professor Cobb
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.680kg
ISBN:  

9780520379039

ISBN 10:   0520379039
Pages:   380
Publication Date:   10 March 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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) Index

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Cobb's book is a valuable introduction to the reception history of stories related to the martyrdom of Perpetua and her companions, especially for students and others new to the traditions surrounding their cult. * Reading Religion *

"""Cobb’s book is a valuable introduction to the reception history of stories related to the martyrdom of Perpetua and her companions, especially for students and others new to the traditions surrounding their cult."" * Reading Religion *"

Author Information

L. Stephanie Cobb is George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts and Divine Deliverance: Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Narratives.   Andrew S. Jacobs is a historian of early Christianity based outside Boston, Massachusetts. His most recent book, Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity, won the Philip Schaff Prize from the American Society of Church History.

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