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Perpetua's Passion studies the third-century martyrdom of a young woman and places it in the intellectual and social context of her age. 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.
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Leonard E. Knight
reviewed Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman on September 29, 2016
Perpetua's Passion
The title of this book is somewhat misleading. If you grew up Catholic and spent half your life reading the lives of saints and the like, you probably knew that Perpetua was a Christian martyr. (I didn't realize this; apparently it has been too long since I added this book to my list). Although her family had likely been Roman citizens for many generations, and her father was probably high-ranking in the municipal province, she actually lived and was martyred in Carthage in North Africa.
Unlike most martyrs, especially female martyrs of the time, Perpetua kept a diary while she was imprisoned. The author includes the translation of what we have of this diary in the text, including the eyewitness account of the person to whom she entrusted the diary of the actual arena experience and death of Perpetua and the group of martyrs of which she was a part. The book itself is not long, and the portion occupied by the diary is even smaller.
The author discusses at length the background of the martyrdom, including the conflicting religious and political currents of the time, that influenced both Perpetua and her friends and the government of the province under the emperor Septimus Severus. She also tells of the history of Carthage and how this history encouraged a view of suicide as self-sacrifice for the good of the country. There seem to have been a generous number of Christian martyrs in Carthage and the rest of North Africa between the second and fourth centuries.
There is also a discussion of the Christian community at the time of Perpetua's martyrdom, and what martyrdom meant both to Perpetua and her friends at the time of her death and to Christians in later ages.
This is a very scholarly and well-researched book.
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