Perpetua's Passion
The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman
By Joyce E. Salisbury
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- ISBN: 978-0-415-91837-4
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 7th October 1997
- Pages: 240
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About the Book
Perpetua's Passion studies the third-century martyrdom of a young woman and places it in the intellectual and social context of her age. Conflicting ideas of religion, family and gender are explored as Salisbury follows Perpetua from her youth in a wealthy Roman household to her imprisonment and death in the arena.
About the Author(s)
Joyce E. Salisbury holds the Frankenthal Professorship of Medieval History and Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. She is widely published in the fields of religion and medieval studies, and her most recent books include
The Beast Within: Animals and Bestiality in the Middle Ages (Routledge, 1994) and
Church Fathers, Independent Virgins (1992).
