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  • Record Number: 45770
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Cobb , L. Stephanie,
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  • Title: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Late Antiquity
  • Source: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Late Antiquity.L. Stephanie Cobb, translator and Andrew S. Jacobs, translator  Edited by L. Stephanie Cobb.  University of California Press, 2021.  Pages 19 - 94. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1kr4n03
  • Description: 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. — [Reproduced from the publisher’s website: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520379039/the-passion-of-perpetua-and-felicitas-in-late-antiquity]
    In addition to the three accounts of the martyrdoms on pages 19-94, there are also many Late Antique and early medieval texts, primarily in Latin, with English translations concerning the saints. See the table of contents in JSTOR. [Note supplied by Feminae]
  • Article Type: Edition of Text ; Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Hagiography Martyrs
  • Award Note: Feminae Translation of the Month, May 2021
  • Geographic Area: General
  • Century: 3- 4- 5- 6- 7- 8
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of Richmond [Cobb]
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  • Year of Publication: 2021.
  • Language: English ; Greek ; Latin
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9780520379039 (hbk), 9780520976498 (online)