 | Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman by Joyce E. Salisbury
Buy new: £65.00 / Used from: £25.95 Excellent For Perpetua, perhaps the most famous early Christian martyr.
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 | Making Martyrs in Late Antiquity by Lucy Grig
Buy new: £47.50 / Used from: £47.81 Especially for Agnes, and general info on martyrdom
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 | Women in Early Christianity: Translations from Greek Texts
Buy new: £25.60 / Used from: £25.57 For Greek martyrs (e.g. Blandina)
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 | Christianity and Roman Society (Key Themes in Ancient History) by Gillian Clark
Buy new: £22.09 / Used from: £16.26 General info on context and martyrdom
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 | Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church: A Study of a Conflict from the MacCabees to Donatus by W. H. C. Frend
Buy used from: £54.96 That classic!
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 | "Let Us Die That We May Live": Greek Homilies on Christian Martyrs from Asia Minor, Palestine and Syria C.350-c.450 AD by Pauline Allen
Buy new: £57.00 / Used from: £66.39 Wonderful introduction to Greek martyr texts, with very good translations
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 | The Cult of the Saints (Popular Patristics) by St. John Chrysostom
Buy new: £12.99 / Used from: £11.87 A helpful introduction to John Chrysostom's interpretation of martyrdom; esp. for the Maccabean mother, Drosis, etc.
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 | Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (Gender, Theory, and Religion) by E Castelli
Buy new: £44.20 / Used from: £13.46 Insightful
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 | The Blood of Martyrs: The Impact and Memory of Ancient Violence by Joyce E. Salisbury
Buy new: £23.38 / Used from: £13.34 Especially interesting for her inisghts on martyrs as mothers / mothers as martyrs
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 | Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua to Marguerite Porete by Peter Dronke
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 | The History of the Church (Penguin Classics) by Eusebius
Buy new: £7.17 / Used from: £3.99 For account of martyrs of Lyon (Blandina)
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 | The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and Function in Latin Christianity (Haskell Lecture) by Brown
Buy new: £7.54 / Used from: £5.70 Essential for context and theology
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 | Why Study the Past? by Rowan Williams
Buy new: £6.23 / Used from: £2.98 Again, essential for theoogy of martyrdom
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| Maenads, Martyrs, Matrons, Monastics: Source Book on Women's Religions in the Greco-Roman World
Buy used from: £2.56 A classic sourcebook
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 | The Suffering Self: Pain and Narrative Representation in the Early Christian Era by Judith Perkins
Buy new: £66.50 / Used from: £48.00 Very insightful and new approach with a good section on Perpetua
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| Carnal Knowing: Female Nakedness and Religious Meaning in the Christian West by Margaret Miles
Buy used from: £6.49 Excellent for understanding the female body and martyrdom. Again...Perpetua!
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