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For links to other accounts of early Christian martyrdoms, see Darrell Doughty's Persecution and Martyrdom in Early Christianity page at http://users.drew.edu/ddoughty/Christianorigins/persecutions/
 

Below is a selection of recent workss on Perpetua.  Starred items are on reserve at Fintel or in the Fintel collection:

  1. *Dronke, Peter.  Women Writers of the Middle Ages:  A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua (203) to Marguerite Porete (1310).  New York:  Cambridge University Press, 1984.
  2. *Frend, W., "Blandina and Perpetua:  Two Early Christian Heroines," in Women and Early Christianity, ed. D. M. Scholer, 87-97. New York: Garland, 1993.
  3. *Lefkowitz, Mary, "Motivations for St. Perpetua's Martyrdom," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 44 (1976), 417-421.
  4. McKechnie, Paul "St. Perpetua and Roman Education in A.D. 200," L'Antiquite Classique 63 (1994) 279-291.
  5. *Osiek, Carolyn "Perpetua's Husband," Journal of Early Christian Studies 10.2 (2002) 287-290.
  6. *Perkins, Judith B. "The Passion of Perpetua: A Narrative of Empowerment," Latomus 53.4 (1994) 837-847.
  7. *Pettersen, Alvyn, "Perpetua—Prisoner of Conscience" Vigiliae Christianae 41 (1987) 139-53.
  8. Prinzivalli, Emanuela, "Perpetua the Martyr," in Roman Women, ed. Augusto Fraschetti, chap. 6. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. [Availabel from Hollins Library; I also own this one; let me know if you would like to borrow it - JBM]
  9. *Rader, R., "The Martyrdom of Perpetua: a Protest Account of Third-Century Christianity," in P. Wilson-Kastner, ed. A Lost Tradition: Women Writers of the Early Church, 1-32. Boston: University Press of America, 1981.
  10. *Rives, James, "The Piety of a Persecutor," Journal of Early Christian Studies 4.1 (1996) 1-25.
  11. Robeck, Cecil M., Prophecy in Carthage: Perpetua, Tertullian, and Cyprian. Cleveland, Ohio: Pilgrim Press, 1992. [On order for Fintel]
  12. *Rouselle, Robert, "The Dreams of Vibia Perpetua:  Analysis of a Female Christian Martyr," Journal of Psychohistory 14 (1987) 193-206.
  13. Salisbury, Joyce E., Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman. New York: Routledge, 1997.  [On order for Fitel; I also own this one; let me know if you would like to borrow it - JBM]
  14. Shaw, Brent D. "The Passion of Perpetua" Past and Present 139 (1993) 3–47.  Full text available on Expanded Academic
  15. *Smith, Lacey B. Fools, Martyrs, Traitors:  The Story of Martyrdom in the Western World.  New York: Knopf, 1997.
  16. *Vierow, Heidi "Feminine and Masculine Voices in the Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas," Latomus 58.3 (1999) 600-619.
  17. *Wypustek, A. "Magic, Montanism, Perpetua, and the Severan Persecution" Vigiliae Christianae 51.3 (1997) 276-297.