Saint Perpetua across the Middle Ages Mother, Gladiator, Saint
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 t
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SAINT PERPETUA across the
Middle Ages MOTHER , GLADIATOR , SAINT Margaret Cotter-Lynch
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The New Middle Ages Series Editor Bonnie Wheeler English & Medieval Studies Southern Methodist University Dallas, Texas, USA
The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender analyses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14239
Margaret Cotter-Lynch
Saint Perpetua across the Middle Ages Mother, Gladiator, Saint
Margaret Cotter-Lynch Department of English, Humanities, and Languages Southeastern Oklahoma State University Durant, Oklahoma, USA
The New Middle Ages ISBN 978-1-137-47963-1 ISBN 978-1-137-46740-9 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-46740-9
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
It takes a village to write a book, as it does to raise a child, and I owe many debts of gratitude for help and support. Joe Pucci first introduced me to Perpetua when I was an undergraduate, and has encouraged me in my love for the Latin Middle Ages ever since. Catherine Brown, Peggy McCracken, and Charles Witke nurtured my interest in Perpetua in graduate school, even when she turned out to be a project too big for my dissertation. Cathy Sanok guided me through the intricacies of how to research medieval saints and think through their gender. Bonnie Wheeler has consistently and fiercely believed in this book, and me, for years. Her constant insistence that one ca
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