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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-married and had recently become the mother of a baby son, but despite her advantages, she refused to recant her faith when she was arrested with other recent converts to Christianity. Imprisoned with her was her pregnant slave Felicity. Perpetua's steadfastness in her belief led to her martyrdom in the amphitheater. A

Martyrdom --- Christian martyrs --- Christianity --- Perpetua, --- Felicity, --- Christianity. --- -Christian martyrs --- -235.3*7 --- 235.3*7 Martelaren --- Martelaren --- Martyrs --- Death --- Suffering --- Religious aspects --- Perpétue, --- Vibia Perpetua, --- Felicitas, --- Félicité, --- Martyre --- Martyrs chrétiens --- Christianisme --- 235.3*7 --- Martyrdom (Christianity) --- Martyrdom - Christianity --- Christian martyrs - Italy --- Perpetua et Felicitas mm. --- Perpetua, - Saint, - d. 203 --- Felicity, - Saint, - d. 203 --- Felicitas --- Félicité --- Felicity --- Perpetua --- Perpétue --- Vibia Perpetua

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While concentrated on the famous Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis, this book focuses on an area that has so far been somewhat marginalized or even overlooked by modern interpreters: the recontextualizing of the Passio Perpetuae in the subsequent reception of this text in the literature of the early Church. Since its composition in the early decades of the 3rd century, the Passio Perpetuae was enjoying an extraordinary authority and popularity. However, it contained a number of revolutionary and innovative features that were in conflict with existing social and theological conventions. This book analyses all relevant texts from the 3rd to 5th centuries in which Perpetua and her comrades are mentioned, and demonstrates the ways in which these texts strive to normalize the innovative aspects of the Passio Perpetuae. These efforts, visible as they are already on careful examination of the passages of the editor of the passio, continue from Tertullian to Augustine and his followers. The normalization of the narrative reaches its peak in the so-called Acta Perpetuae which represent a radical rewriting of the original and an attempt to replace it by a purified text, more compliant with the changed socio-theological hierarchies.

Christian women martyrs --- Christian saints --- Christian martyrs --- Christian martyrs in literature. --- 235.3*351 --- 235.3*72 --- 235.3*351 Westerse hagiografische bronnen: historische martyrologia --- Westerse hagiografische bronnen: historische martyrologia --- Women Christian martyrs --- History. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis. --- Perpetua, --- Perpétue, --- Vibia Perpetua, --- Christian martyrs in literature --- Women martyrs --- Martyrs --- Martyrdom --- Saints --- Canonization --- Christianity --- Biography --- History and criticism --- Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis --- Christian women martyrs - Africa, North - History --- Christian saints - Africa, North - Biography - History and criticism --- Christian martyrs - History - Early church, ca. 30-600 --- Perpetua et Felicitas mm. --- Perpetua, - Saint, - -203 --- Perpetua --- Perpétue --- Vibia Perpetua --- Acta Perpetuae. --- Augustine. --- Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis. --- martyrdom.

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

272 <37> --- 235.3*7 --- 235.3 PERPETUA --- Christian martyrs --- -Christian saints --- -Christian women saints --- -Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Christian saints --- Women saints --- Saints --- Canonization --- Martyrs --- Martyrdom --- Kerkvervolging--Rome. Oud-Italië --- Martelaren --- Hagiografie--PERPETUA --- Biography --- Christianity --- Perpetua Saint --- Christian women martyrs --- Christian women saints --- Biography. --- Perpetua, --- Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis. --- -Kerkvervolging--Rome. Oud-Italië --- 235.3*7 Martelaren --- -235.3*7 Martelaren --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian martyrs --- Women martyrs --- Perpétue, --- Vibia Perpetua, --- Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis --- Passio S. Perpetuae --- Passio Sanctae Perpetuae --- Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis --- Passion des saintes Perpétue et Félicité --- Passion of S. Perpetua --- Passion of St. Perpetua --- Passion of SS. Perpetua and Felicity MM. --- Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas --- Perpetua --- Tunisia --- Perpetua, - Saint, - d. 203. --- Christian saints - Tunisia - Biography. --- Christian martyrs - Tunisia - Biography. --- Christian women saints - Tunisia - Biography. --- Christian women martyrs - Tunisia - Biography. --- Perpetua et Felicitas mm. --- Perpetua, - Saint, - -203. --- Perpétue --- Vibia Perpetua

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This study traces the genealogy of Saint Perpetua’s story with a straightforward yet previously overlooked question at its center: How was Perpetua remembered and to what uses was that memory put? One of the most popular and venerated saints from 200 CE to the thirteenth century, the story of Saint Perpetua was retold in dramatically different forms across the European Middle Ages. Her story begins in the arena at Carthage: a 22-year-old nursing mother named Vibia Perpetua was executed for being a Christian, leaving behind a self-authored account of her time in prison leading up to her martyrdom. By turns loving mother, militant gladiator, empathic young woman, or unattainable ideal, Saint Perpetua’s story ultimately helps to trace the circulation of texts and the transformations of ideals of Christian womanhood between the third and thirteenth centuries.

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Christian church history --- Thecla Iconii --- Felicitas Tuburbi --- Perpetua Tuburbi --- anno 1-499 --- Christian women martyrs --- 235.3*7 --- 27 "00/02" --- 235.3*7 Martelaren --- Martelaren --- Women Christian martyrs --- Christian martyrs --- Women martyrs --- History --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/02" --- Felicity, --- Perpetua, --- Thecla, --- Ḟēkla, --- Tecla, --- Thècle, --- Thekla, --- Perpétue, --- Vibia Perpetua, --- Felicitas, --- Félicité, --- Acts of Paul and Thecla. --- Passio SS. Perpetuae et Felicitatis. --- Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis --- Passio S. Perpetuae --- Passio Sanctae Perpetuae --- Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis --- Passion des saintes Perpétue et Félicité --- Passion of S. Perpetua --- Passion of St. Perpetua --- Passion of SS. Perpetua and Felicity MM. --- Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas --- Acta Pauli et Theclae --- Actes de Paul et Thècle --- Perpetua --- Perpétue --- Vibia Perpetua --- Felicitas --- Félicité --- Felicity