The Legacy of Misidentification: Why the Martyrs in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis were not from Thuburbo Minus
There still exists considerable uncertainty among historians concerning the identification of the native city of the martyrs in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis: that is, were these five young catechumens and their teacher Saturus from Carthage or from Thuburbo Minus? I shall show in th...
| Published in: | Journal of early Christian history |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
[2016]
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Journal of early Christian history
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KBL Near East and North Africa KCD Hagiography; saints |
| Further subjects: | B
Perpetua and Felicity
B Thuburbo Minus B Roman North Africa B Martyrdom B Jerome’s Martyrology |
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| Summary: | There still exists considerable uncertainty among historians concerning the identification of the native city of the martyrs in the Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis: that is, were these five young catechumens and their teacher Saturus from Carthage or from Thuburbo Minus? I shall show in this, the first detailed examination of the evidence, that the case for Thuburbo Minus as their residence, though intriguing and proposed again recently, cannot be maintained given the present evidence. Furthermore, I will also show that specific references to place in the Passio are highly suggestive of a large cosmopolitan setting, like Carthage, where there were some Christian groups. The arguments for Thurburbo Minus are based principally on its mention in the Greek manuscript and in the Acta, both of which are later compositions and which have provided this spurious location from the enormously influential mid-fifth century Martyrologium Hieronymianum. |
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| ISSN: | 2471-4054 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/2222582X.2016.1290016 |