On 7 March 203, a young Roman noblewoman, Vibia Perpetua, experienced a series of disturbing visions while she and her slave, Felicitas, awaited execution in a Carthaginian prison. In the first of these revelations, Perpetua witnesses the opening of the heavens and the miraculou…
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"Perpetua und der Ägypter", die erste umfassende literarische Deutung eines frühchristlichen Märtyrertextes, der Passio Perpetuae, ist nicht allein für Patristiker, Klassische Philologen und Literaturwissenschaftler von Belang, sondern auch und gerade für alle, die zur Geschicht…
"Perpetua and the Egyptian", the first comprehensive literary interpretation of an early Christian martyrdom text, the Passio Perpetuae, is important not only for patristic scholars, classicists and literary historians, but also - and especially - for all those working on the po…
La passione di Perpetua e Felicita
by Cantarella, Eva, Formisano, Marco
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Italian transl. of the anonymous ms. Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis on the martyrdom of a group of Christians in Carthage in 203 A.D.
This book traces the reinterpretations of the famous North African martyr text Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis in the literature of the early Church from the 3rd century up to the times of Augustine. This recontextualization reaches its peak in the so-called Acta Perpetuaethat r…
"This book traces the reinterpretations of the famous North African martyr text Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis in the literature of the early Church from the 3rd century up to the times of Augustine. This recontextualization reaches its peak in the so-called Acta Perpetuae that…
This book traces the reinterpretations of the famous North African martyr text Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis in the literature of the early Church from the 3rd century up to the times of Augustine. This recontextualization reaches its peak in the so-called Acta Perpetuaethat r…
One of the most widely read and studied texts composed in Late Antiquity is the prison diary of Vibia Perpetua, a young woman of the elite classes who was martyred in March of the year 202 or 203 C.E. in Carthage, as part of a civic celebration honoring Caesar Geta. She was well…
"One of the most widely read and studied texts composed in Late Antiquity is the prison diary of Vibia Perpetua, a young woman of the elite classes who was martyred in March of the year 202 or 203 C.E. in Carthage, as part of a civic celebration honoring Caesar Geta. She was wel…