Did Perpetua write her prison account?

• Authors: Hunink Vincent
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Perpetua is well known for her lively first person account of her stay in prison before execution. In some recent papers, it has been doubted whether Perpetua actually composed this text herself. This paper argues that while we cannot be absolutely certain that Perpetua wrote 'her' text, attempts to doubt her authorship cannot be based on the Latin text of the Passio, where it is clearly stated that Perpetuais text was written manu sua 'with her own hand'.

Keywords

EN

AUTHENTICITY; PASSIO PERPETUAE ET FELICITATIS; ST. PERPETUA

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Listy filologické (Folia philologica)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 133
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 147-155
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Hunink Vincent

• Vincent Hunink, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Faculty of Arts, Department of Greek and Latin Languages and Cultures, Erasmusplein 1, k. 7. 26a 6525, HT Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10CZAAAA083119