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Loading... Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Womanby Joyce E. Salisbury
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This book is an attempt by Salisbury to put the well-known source, the Passio of Perpetua and Felicity, into a broad cultural and religious context, though I don't think it's a particularly successful one. I think she was aiming it at an undergrad audience, but instead of merely simplifying some concepts she dumbed them down a little—Salisbury doesn't really engage with some of the interpretive issues or explain why she adopts some of the opinions which she does, and I think showing how historians make the choices they make when writing history is even more key when writing for an interested lay reader. She makes some interesting suggestions, but we really don't have the sources to back up what she's saying, which draws a big question mark over a lot of her conclusions. Could be used in an undergrad course, but I think only with great care. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)272.1Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity Persecutions Apostolic church by imperial Rome (1st-4th century)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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