By Petr Kitzler
ISBN-10: 3110419424
ISBN-13: 9783110419429
While focused on the well-known Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis, this booklet makes a speciality of a space that has up to now been just a little marginalized or perhaps ignored via sleek interpreters: the recontextualizing of the Passio Perpetuae within the next reception of this article within the literature of the early Church. due to the fact that its composition within the early a long time of the third century, the Passio Perpetuae was having fun with a rare authority and recognition. although, it contained a few progressive and cutting edge beneficial properties that have been in clash with present social and theological conventions. This booklet analyses all proper texts from the third to fifth centuries within which Perpetua and her comrades are pointed out, and demonstrates the ways that those texts try to normalize the leading edge facets of the Passio Perpetuae. those efforts, seen as they're already on cautious exam of the passages of the editor of the passio, proceed from Tertullian to Augustine and his fans. The normalization of the narrative reaches its top within the so-called Acta Perpetuae which symbolize an intensive rewriting of the unique and an try to exchange it by means of a purified textual content, extra compliant with the replaced socio-theological hierarchies.
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