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

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.

Author: Joyce E. Salisbury
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/07/1997
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.05w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780415918374

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 11/03/1997 pg. 73
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/1997 pg. 1631
Library Journal 01/01/1998 pg. 117
Booklist 11/15/1997 pg. 525
Booklist 10/01/1998 pg. 282

About the Author

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 andBestiality in the Middle Ages (Routledge, 1994) and Church Fathers, Independent Virgins (1992).