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Bowersock G. W. (2002), Martyrdom and Rome (Wiles Lectures Given at the Queen's University of Belfast) (Cambridge University Press)
Castelli E. (2007), Martyrdom and Memory: Early Christian Culture Making (Gender, Theory, and Religion) (Columbia University Press)
Drove A. J. & Tabor J. D. (1992),  Noble Death: Suicide and Martyrdom Among Christians and Jews in Antiquity (Harper San Francisco)
Frend W. H. C. (2008 ), Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church (James Clarke & Co.)
Gemeinhardt P. and Leemans J., Christian Martyrdom in Late Antiquity (300-450 AD) (Arbeiten Zur Kirchengeschichte) (de Gruyter, 2012)
Leemans J. (ed.), Martyrdom and Persecution in Late Antique Christianity: Festschrift Boudewijn Dehandschutter (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium) (Peeters, 2010)
Musurillo H. A. ed. (1972), The Acts of the Christian Martyrs (Oxford University Press)
Riddle D. W. (1931), The Martyrs, A Study in Social Control (University of Chicago Press)
Salisbury J. E. (2004), The Blood of Martyrs: Unintended Consequences of Ancient Violence (Routledge)
Salisbury J. E. (1997), Perpetua's Passion: The Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman (Routledge)
Shin, Min Seok, (2019) The Great Persecution: A Historical Re-examination (Studia Antiqua Australiensia, Brepols)
Wilken R. L. (2003) The Christians as the Romans Saw Them (Yale University Press)
Workman H. (1980), Persecution in the Early Church: A Chapter in the History of Renunciation (Oxford Paperbacks - a Classic Reprint)
Young R. D. (2001), In Procession Before the World: Martyrdom As Public Liturgy in Early Christianity (The Pere Marquette Lecture in Theology, 2001 - Marquette Univ. Press)