 |  The Western Experience, 8/e Mortimer Chambers,
University of California - Los Angeles Barbara Hanawalt,
Ohio State University Theodore Rabb,
Princeton University Isser Woloch,
Columbia University Raymond Grew,
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
The Empire and Christianity
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| Women In Ancient Christianity: The New Discoveries
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/first/women.html)
Scholar Karen King examines the evidence concerning women's important place in early Christianity. She draws a surprising new portrait of Mary Magdalene and outlines the stories of previously unknown early Christian women. |  |  |  | The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/perpetua.html)
This is the prison diary of a young woman martyred in Carthage in 202 or 203 CE. The beginning and ending are related by an editor/narrator; the central text contains the words of Perpetua herself. |
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