The Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas in Late Antiquity

L. Stephanie Cobb is George and Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Dying to Be Men: Gender and Language in Early Christian Martyr Texts and Divine Deliverance: Pain and Painlessness in Early Christian Martyr Narratives.   Andrew S. Jacobs is a historian of early Christianity based outside Boston, Massachusetts. His most recent book, Epiphanius of Cyprus: A Cultural Biography of Late Antiquity, won the Philip Schaff Prize from the American Society of Church History.

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