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Table of ContentsList 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 AActs 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
