Perpetua's Passions: A Brief Introduction, Jan N. Bremmer & Marco Formisano
The Passio Perpetuae': A Working Text and Translation, Joseph Farrell & Craig Williams
I. The Martyr and her Gender
1:Felicitas: The Martyrdom of a Young African Woman, Jan N. Bremmer
2:Perpetua's Gender. A Latinist Reads the `Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis', Craig Williams
3:`Femina liberaliter instituta': Some Thoughts on a Martyr's Liberal Education, Walter Ameling
4:`Vibia Perpetua': An Indecent Woman, Hanne Sigismund Nielsen
5:The `Passio Perpetuae' and Jewish Martyrdom: The Motif of Motherly Love, Jan Willem van Henten
6:Perpetual Contest, Mieke Bal
7:Maternity and Sainthood in the Medieval Perpetua Legend, Julia Weitbrecht
II. Authority and Testimony
8:The Editor's Prime Objective: `haec in aedificationem Ecclesiae legere', Jan den Boeft
9:Exemplum and Sacrifice, Blood Testimony and Written Testimony: Lucretia and Perpetua as Transitional Figures in the Cultural History of Martyrdom, Sigrid Weigel
10:Visions, Prophecy and Authority in the `Passio Perpetuae', Katharina Waldner
11:The Conquest of the Real by the Imaginary: on the `Passio Perpetuae', Hartmut Böhme
12:Socrates' Passion, Giulia Sissa
13:`Nova exempla': The New Testament of the `Passio Perpetuae', Luca Bagetto
III. The Text, the Canon, and the Margins
14:The `Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis' and Montanism?, Christoph Markschies
15:Perpetua's Martyrdom and the Metamorphosis of Narrative, David Konstan
16:The Canonization of Perpetua, Joseph Farrell
17:The Power of Uncertainty: Interpreting the `Passion of Perpetua and Felicitas', Philippe Mesnard
18:Perpetua's Prisons: Notes on the Margins of Literature, Marco Formisano
Epilogue, Marina Warner