Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 754 g
Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Passio Perpetuae Et Felicitatis
Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 754 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-956188-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Perpetua's Passions is a collection of studies about Perpetua, a young female Christian martyr who was executed in 203 AD. Like her spiritual guide, Saturus, Perpetua left a diary, and a few years after their deaths a fellow Christian collected these writings and supplied them with an introduction and epilogue: the so-called Passion of Perpetua. The result is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic works of antiquity, which the present volume examines from a wide range of perspectives: literary, narratological, historical, religious, psychological, and philosophical viewpoints follow upon a newly edited text and English translation (by Joseph Farrell and Craig Williams). This innovative treatment by a number of distinguished scholars not only complements its unique subject, but constitutes a kind of laboratory of new approaches to ancient texts.
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- Perpetua's Passions: A Brief Introduction
- The Passio Perpetuae': A Working Text and Translation
- I. The Martyr and her Gender
- 1: Jan N. Bremmer: Felicitas: The Martyrdom of a Young African Woman
- 2: Craig Williams: Perpetua's Gender. A Latinist Reads the `Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis'
- 3: Walter Ameling: `Femina liberaliter instituta': Some Thoughts on a Martyr's Liberal Education
- 4: Hanne Sigismund Nielsen: `Vibia Perpetua': An Indecent Woman
- 5: Jan Willem van Henten: The `Passio Perpetuae' and Jewish Martyrdom: The Motif of Motherly Love
- 6: Mieke Bal: Perpetual Contest
- 7: Julia Weitbrecht: Maternity and Sainthood in the Medieval Perpetua Legend
- II. Authority and Testimony
- 8: Jan den Boeft: The Editor's Prime Objective: `haec in aedificationem Ecclesiae legere'
- 9: Sigrid Weigel: Exemplum and Sacrifice, Blood Testimony and Written Testimony: Lucretia and Perpetua as Transitional Figures in the Cultural History of Martyrdom
- 10: Katharina Waldner: Visions, Prophecy and Authority in the `Passio Perpetuae'
- 11: Hartmut Böhme: The Conquest of the Real by the Imaginary: on the `Passio Perpetuae'
- 12: Giulia Sissa: Socrates' Passion
- 13: Luca Bagetto: `Nova exempla': The New Testament of the `Passio Perpetuae'
- III. The Text, the Canon, and the Margins
- 14: Christoph Markschies: The `Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis' and Montanism?
- 15: David Konstan: Perpetua's Martyrdom and the Metamorphosis of Narrative
- 16: Joseph Farrell: The Canonization of Perpetua
- 17: Philippe Mesnard: The Power of Uncertainty: Interpreting the `Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas'
- 18: Marco Formisano: Perpetua's Prisons: Notes on the Margins of Literature
- Epilogue
