Joyce Ellen Salisbury
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Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay, WI. Author of Perpetua's Passion: Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman and The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages.
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Perpetua ; feast day March 7) was a Christian martyr who wrote The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity, a journal recounting her trial and imprisonment that was continued by a contemporary who described Perpetua’s death in the Roman arena. Both her martyrdom and its account have been highly…
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