Cover; Perpetua's Passion; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; one Rome; Home and Hearth; Empire and Emperor; Longing for the Divine; two Carthage; The City; Life and Culture; Sacrifice and Suicide; three Christian Community; Origins; Presence of the Divine; Christian Life; Confrontation with Authority; four Prison; Prison and Trial; Dreams and Visions; The Confessors' Dreams; Final Preparations; five The Arena; The Amphitheater; The Spectators; The Martyrs; six Aftermath; Rome and Carthage; The Christian Community; Memory and the Text; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Tells the story of Vibia Perpetua's arrest and sentence to death after she converted to Christianity, and details the differences between Christianity and the pagan Roman religions of the early third century
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index
Notes
Interwoven in the text is an English translation of the Latin work the Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity
