Saint Perpetua across the Middle Ages

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Mother, Gladiator, Saint, The New Middle Ages

ISBN: 134969374X
ISBN 13: 9781349693740
Autor: Cotter-Lynch, Margaret
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: x, 170 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.11.2020
Auflage: 1/2016
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: KT

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.

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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.

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