The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Late Antiquity

Univ of California Press, Mar 10, 2021 - Religion - 380 pages

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.
 

Contents

• Augustine: 103
• PseudoAugustine: 177
• Treatise on the Feast Day of Perpetua and Felicitas: 205
• Quodvultdeus: 215
• PseudoFulgentius: 241
• References to the Passion in Other Martyr Accounts: 249
• part three the celebrations of the martyrs: 261
• Syriac Martyrology: 269
• Liber genealogus: 275
• Martyrology of Jerome: 281
• Fasti Vindobonenses priores and posteriores: 287
• Prosper: 293
• Calendar of Willibrord: 299
• The Gelasian Sacramentary: 305
• Bede: 311
• Martyrology of Tallaght: 323
• Félire of Oengus the Culdee: 329
• part four the representations of the martyrs: 335
• Arcosolium of the Coemeterium Maius Rome Italy 23 Basilica Maiorum Tunis Tunisia and Victor of Vita 337: 337
• Fresco from arcosolium of Coemeterium Maius: 338
• Fragmentary inscription from Basilica Maiorum: 341
• Arcosolium of Saints Marcus and Marcellianus Rome Italy: 343
• Fresco from arcosolium of Saints Marcus and Marcellianus: 344
• Sarcophagus La Bureba Spain: 346
• Sarcophagus from La Bureba side 1: 347
• Basilica SantApollinare Nuovo Ravenna Italy: 349
• Mosaic of Felicitas and Perpetua from Basilica SantApollinare Nuovo: 350
• Archiepiscopal Chapel Ravenna Italy: 353
• Mosaic of Perpetua and Felicitas from Archiepiscopal Chapel: 354
• Basilica Eufrasiana Poreč Croatia: 356
• Mosaic of Felicitas from Cathedral of Eufrasius: 357
• Index: 359

About the author

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Late Antiquity
• Translated by: L. Stephanie Cobb, Andrew S. Jacobs
• Contributor: L. Stephanie Cobb
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Univ of California Press, 2021
• ISBN: 0520379039, 9780520379039
• Length: 380 pages
• Subjects: History / Ancient / General; Religion / Ancient; Religion / Christianity / History