Saint Perpetua across the Middle Ages

Mother, Gladiator, Saint

Margaret Cotter-Lynch (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

170 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-69374-0 (ISBN)

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This study traces the genealogy of Saint Perpetua’s story with a straightforward yet previously overlooked question at its center: How was Perpetua remembered and to what uses was that memory put? One of the most popular and venerated saints from 200 CE to the thirteenth century, the story of Saint Perpetua was retold in dramatically different forms across the European Middle Ages. Her story begins in the arena at Carthage: a 22-year-old nursing mother named Vibia Perpetua was executed for being a Christian, leaving behind a self-authored account of her time in prison leading up to her martyrdom. By turns loving mother, militant gladiator, empathic young woman, or unattainable ideal, Saint Perpetua’s story ultimately helps to trace the circulation of texts and the transformations of ideals of Christian womanhood between the third and thirteenth centuries.

Margaret Cotter-Lynch is Professor of English, Humanities, and Languages at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, USA. Her previous work includes Reading Memory and Identity in the Texts of Medieval European Holy Women, co-edited with Brad Herzog.

Remembering Perpetua.- The Passio Perpetuae.- The Acta Perpetuae.- Saint Augustine’s Sermons on Perpetua.- Perpetua in the Early Middle Ages.- Perpetua Dominican Legendaries and the Legenda Aurea.- Perpetua Remembered.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	The New Middle Ages
Zusatzinfo	X, 170 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Antiquity • Cultural Theory • Culture • Europe • feminist theology • Gender • History • History of Literature • Literary Theory • Literature • Medieval gender • Middle Ages • Social Science • Sociology • St. Felicity • St. Perpetua • Women’s hagiography • World literature
ISBN-10	1-349-69374-X / 134969374X
ISBN-13	978-1-349-69374-0 / 9781349693740
Zustand	Neuware