Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman by Joyce E. Salisbury

Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman

Joyce E. Salisbury

240 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography history religion reflective slow-paced
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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 ...

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