![]() ![]() At first I did not know what to make of it. I first came across the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity as a PhD student at Cambridge University working one afternoon in the University Library.I will never forget my astonishment as I came upon the story of Perpetua and her fellow martyrs. The following extract describes how he came to write the book after becoming fascinated by the Perpetua story. 978 0 19 977757 0, a new edition and commentary of this remarkable text – an account, told in the first person, of the imprisonment and condemnation of Perpetua, and her slave Felicitas. Professor Heffernan is the author of The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity. On completing his Ph.D., Tom was awarded a fellowship by the Medieval Academy of America for the study of Latin palaeography at Harvard University. He is the author of six books. is a study of religious literature and reform in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. He did post doctoral work at Harvard University. ![]() at Cambridge University (1977) and was the recipient of Emmanuel College scholarships while in residence in Cambridge. ![]() cum laude 1968) and New York University (M.A.1971). Professor Heffernan is a native of New York City and studied at Manhattan College (B.A. Heffernan is a member of the Departments of English and Religious Studies and the Program in Medieval Studies. Heffernan holds the Kenneth Curry Professorship at the University of Tennessee. ![]()
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