Castelli, Elizabeth A

Martyrdom and Memory Early Christian Culture Making - New York Columbia University Press 2004 - 335p

includes index and biblioraphy

1. COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND THE MEANINGS OF THE PAST 10 2. PERFORMING PERSECUTION, THEORIZING MARTYRDOM 33 3. THE MARTYR`S MEMORY: Autobiography and Self-Writing in Ignatius, Perpetua, and Pionius 69 4. MARTYRDOM AND THE SPECTACLE OF SUFFERING 104 5. LAYERS OF VERBAL AND VISUAL MEMORY:Commemorating Thecla the Protomartyr 134 6. RELIGION AS A CHAIN OF MEMORY:Cassie Bernall of Columbine High and the American Legacy of Early Christian Martyrdom 172

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