medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Sunday, March 7, 2010, at 1:34 am, I wrote:
> 1) Perpetua and Felicity (d. 203 ?).
>
> Because the Passio is longer and, for a variety of reasons, more
> interesting than the Acta, scholars have tended to act as though it
> were for historical purposes the primary text, more reliable than the
> Acta in cases of disagreement but capable of supplementation from that
> source when it itself is silent. Thus modern summaries of the events
> in question follow the Passio in assigning the martyrdom of P. and F.
> to the early third century, late in the reign of Septimius Severus,
> and sometimes do not even bother to mention that the Acta instead
> place these events under Valerian and Gallienus in the middle of that
> century. On the other hand, they are perfectly willing to accept from
> the Acta the datum that the town -- unnamed in the Passio -- in which
> P., F., and the others arrested with them was Thuburbo Minus (in the
> view of some, "Thuburbo" -- both Maius and Minus -- should really be
> spelled "Thuburdo").
That last sentence was badly garbled. Read: ... the town ... from which P., F., and the others arrested with them hailed was Thuburbo Minus...
Best again,
JD
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