The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Late Antiquity

This volume gathers all available evidence for the martyrdoms of Perpetua and Felicitas, two Christian women who became, in the centuries after their deaths in 203 CE, revered throughout the Roman world. Whereas they are now known primarily through a popular third-century account, numerous lesser known texts attest to the profound place they held in the lives of Christians in late antiquity. This book brings together narratives in their original languages with accompanying English translations, including many related entries from calendars, martyrologies, sacramentaries, and chronicles, as well as artistic representations and inscriptions. As a whole, the collection offers readers a robust view of the veneration of Perpetua and Felicitas over the course of six centuries, examining the diverse ways that a third-century Latin tradition was appreciated, appropriated, and transformed as it circulated throughout the late antique world.
 

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
General Introduction

Part One. The Accounts of the Martyrdom
1. Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas (Latin) 
2. Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicitas (Greek)
3. Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas 
Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas A
Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas B

Part Two. The Interpretations of the Martyrdom
4. Tertullian
On the Soul 55 (excerpt)

5. Augustine 
Sermon 280 
Sermon 281
Sermon 282
Sermon 282auct
On the Nature and Origin of the Soul (excerpt)
Expositions on the Psalms (excerpt)
Sermon 159A

6. Pseudo-Augustine
Sermon 394
Sermon 394A
On the Feast Day of Saint Victoria (Mai 66)

7. Treatise on the Feast Day of Perpetua and Felicitas

8. Quodvultdeus 
On the Barbaric Age I

9. Pseudo-Fulgentius
On Job and Blessed Perpetua

10. References to the Passion in Other Martyr Accounts 
Martyrdom of Polyeuctus 
Martyrdom of Procopius of Scythopolis

Part Three. The Celebrations of the Martyrs
11. Martyrs' Burials of the Codex-Calendar of 354
12. Syriac Martyrology
13. Liber genealogus
14. Martyrology of Jerome 
15. Fasti Vindobonenses priores and posteriores 
16. Prosper 
Chronicle
17. Calendar of Willibrord 
18. The Gelasian Sacramentary
19. Bede
Martyrology of Bede
On the Reckoning of Time
20. Martyrology of Tallaght
21. Félire of Oengus the Culdee 

Part Four. The Representations of the Martyrs
22. Arcosolium of the Coemeterium Maius (Rome, Italy)
23. Basilica Maiorum (Tunis, Tunisia) and Victor of Vita
24. Arcosolium of Saints Marcus and Marcellianus (Rome, Italy)
25. Sarcophagus (La Bureba, Spain)
26. Basilica Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna, Italy)
27. Archiepiscopal Chapel (Ravenna, Italy)
28. Basilica Eufrasiana (Poreč, Croatia)

Index