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Gender and Martyrdom in North Africa
Carthage, Tunisia
 
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Most of the articles listed below are in the Dig Sites folder on Camino : Files; many of the books are on hard copy reserve at the Circulation Desk in the Learning Commons.
 
Archaeological & Epigraphic Evidence
 
Bomgardner, David L.  "The Carthage Amphitheater: A Reappraisal."  American Journal of Archaeology 93:1 (1989) 85-103.
 
Brothers, A. J.  "Buildings for Entertainment."  In Roman Public Buildings (ed. Ian M. Barton; Exeter Studies in History 20; Exeter: University of Exeter, 1989) 97-125, pls. 22-29.
 
Coleman, Kathleen M.  "Fatal Charades: Roman Executions Staged as Mythological Enactments."  Journal of Roman Studies 80 (1990) 44-73, plates II-III.
 
Kyle, Donald G.  Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome.  New York: Routledge, 2001; original 1998.
 
 
Literary Evidence
 
Primary Texts
 
Tertullian.  "The Passion of the Martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas," trans. and introduced by R. E. Wallis.  In Latin Christianity: Its Founder, Tertullian. I. Apologetic; II. Anti-Marcion; III. Ethical (ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson; Ante-Nicene Fathers 3; Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson, 1994; original, 1885) 697-706.
 
Metzger, Bruce M., ed.  "Revelation 4–6; 17–19; 21:9–22:7."  In Holy Bible, New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990) 269-71, 278-83.  [In required readings folder on Camino : Files and below]
 
Secondary Literature
 
Baert, B.  "More than an Image: Agnes of Rome: Virginity and Visual Memory."   In More Than a Memory: The Discourse of Martyrdom and the Construction of Christian Identity in the History of Christianity (ed. Johan Leemans, with the collaboration of Jürgen Mettepenningen; Annua nuntia lovaniensia 51; Dudley, Massachusetts: Peeters, 2005) 139-68.
 
Bowersock, G. W.  Martyrdom and Rome, Wiles Lectures Given at the Queen's University of Belfast.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
 
Bomgardner, David.  "15. The Magerius Mosaic Revisited."  In Roman Amphitheatres and Spectacula: A 21st-Century Perspective. Papers from an International Conference Held at Chester, 16th–18th February, 2007 (ed. Tony Wilmott; BAR International Series 1946; Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009) 165-177, pls. 45-52.
 
Boyarin, Daniel.  Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism, Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture.  Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1999.
 
Burrus, Virginia.  "Dying for a Life: Martyrdom, Masochism, and Female (Auto)Biography."  In The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) 53-90, 179-86.
 
--------.  "Reading Agnes: The Rhetoric of Gender in Ambrose and Prudentius."   Journal of Early Christian Studies 3:1 (1995) 25-46.
 
Castelli, Elizabeh A.  Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making, Gender, Theory, and Religion.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.
 
Cobb, L. Stephanie.  "Dying To Be Men: The Function of Gendered Language in Early Christian Martyrologies."  Ph.D. Dissertation, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, 2004.
 
Dehandschutter, Boudewijn.  "A Community of Martyrs: Religious Identity and the Case of the Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne."  In More than a Memory: The Discourse of Martyrdom and the Construction of Christian Identity in the History of Christianity (ed. Johan Leemans, with the collaboration of Jürgen Mettepenningen; Annua nuntia lovaniensia 51; Dudley, Massachusetts: Peeters, 2005) 3-22.
 
Frankfurter, David T. M.  "Martyrology and the Prurient Gaze."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 17:2 (2009) 215-45.
 
Frilingos, Christopher A.  "As If Slain."  In Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion; Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004) 64-88, 144-52.  [In required readings folder on Camino : Files]
 
Hall, Stuart G.  "Women among the Early Martyrs."  In Martyrs and Martyrologies: Papers Read at the 1992 Summer Meeting and the 1993 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (ed. Diana Wood; Studies in Church History 30; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1993) 1-21.
 
Hartney, Aideen M.  Gruesome Deaths and Celibate Lives: Christian Martyrs and Ascetics.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
 
Hinson, E. Glenn.  "Women among the Martyrs."  Studia Patristica 25 (1993) 423-8.
 
Jones, Chris.  "Women, Death, and the Law during the Christian Persecutions."  In Martyrs and Martyrologies: Papers Read at the 1992 Summer Meeting and the 1993 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (ed. Diana Wood; Studies in Church History 30; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1993) 23-34.
 
Kelley, Nicole.  "Philosophy as Training for Death: Reading the Ancient Christian Martyr Acts as Spiritual Exercises."  Church History 75:4 (2006) 723-47.
 
Moss, Candida R.  Ancient Christian Martyrdom: Diverse Practices, Theologies, and Traditions.  New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2012.
 
--------.  The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom.  San Francisco: HarperOne, 2013.
 
--------.  The Other Christs: Imitating Jesus in Ancient Christian Ideologies of Martyrdom.  New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
 
Osiek, Carolyn R.  "Perpetua's Husband."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 10:2 (2002) 287-90.
 
Perkins, Judith.  "The Rhetoric of the Maternal Body in the Passion of Perpetua."   In Mapping Gender in Ancient Religious Discourses (ed. Todd Penner and Caroline Vander Stichele; Biblical Interpretation Series; Leiden/Atlanta: Brill/Society of Biblical Literature, 2007) 313-32.
 
--------.  The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era.  London: Routledge, 1995.
 
Rives, James.  "The Piety of a Persecutor."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 4:1 (1996) 1-25.
 
Ross, Jill.  "Dynamic Writing and Martyrs' Bodies in Prudentius' Peristephanon."   Journal of Early Christian Studies 3:3 (1995) 325-55.
 
Schroeder, Joy A.  "Virgin and Martyr: Divine Protection from Sexual Assault in the Peristephanon of Prudentius."  In Miracles in Jewish and Christian Antiquity: Imagining Truth (ed. John C. Cavadini; Notre Dame Studies in Theology 3; Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999) 169-91.
 
Shaw, Brent D.  "Body/Power/Identity: The Passion of the Martyrs."  Journal of Early Christian Studies 4:4 (1996) 269-312.
 
Streete, Gail Corrington.  "Of Martyrs and Men: Perpetua, Thecla, and the Ambiguity of Female Heroism in Early Christianity."  In The Subjective Eye: Essays in Culture, Religion, and Gender in Honor of Margaret R. Miles (ed. Richard Valantasis; Princeton Theological Monographs 59; Eugene, Oregon: Pickwick, 2006) 254-64.
 
Van Den Eynde, Sabine.  "'A Testimony to the Non-Believers, A Blessing to the Believers': The Passio Perpetuae and the Construction of a Christian Identity."  In More than a Memory: The Discourse of Martyrdom and the Construction of Christian Identity in the History of Christianity (ed. Johan Leemans, with the collaboration of Jürgen Mettepenningen; Annua nuntia lovaniensia 51; Dudley, Massachusetts: Peeters, 2005) 23-44.
 
 
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