num_pages: 240
description: 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.
language: English
title: Perpetua's Passion
titlecomplete: Perpetua's Passion
characters: Perpetua
genres: Historical, Religion, Biography, Nonfiction, Christian, History
ratings_count: 116
publisher: Routledge