This work deals with the phenomenon of female martyrdom in ancient Christianity, trying to integrate the traditional historical perspective with the more recent gender history perspective. The phenomenon is explored both through modern... more
This work deals with the phenomenon of female martyrdom in ancient Christianity, trying to integrate the traditional historical perspective with the more recent gender history perspective. The phenomenon is explored both through modern studies on the matter and through ancient literary sources. In addition to the historical-literary approach, there is an attempt to include the contribution of anthropology and the history of comparative religions to frame the phenomenon of martyrdom in general and not lose sight of the environment in which Christianity was born and developed, in close contact with the Jewish and Greek-pagan world.
