![]() ![]() ![]() Conflicting ideas of religion, family and gender are explored as Salisbury follows Perpetua from her youth in a wealthy Roman household to her imprisonment and death in the arena. Perpetua's Passionstudies the third-century martyrdom of a young woman and places it in the intellectual and social context of her age. This poignant and personal narrative is the focus of this study of the conflict that resulted in the martyrdom of Perpetua. One of these, a twenty-two year old young mother, wrote a diary while she was imprisoned awaiting execution later, this diary was completed by an observer who described her death in the arena. In 203 AD a group of Christians in Carthage, North Africa, were sentenced to the beasts in the arena. ![]()
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