Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem explores one of the most richly detailed stories of a woman of late antiquity. Melania, an early fifth-century Roman Christian aristocrat, renounced her staggering wealth to lead a life of ascetic renunciation. Her life spans many crucial events in the history of the later Roman Empire.
Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem explores one of the most richly detailed stories of a woman of late antiquity. Melania, an early fifth-century Roman Christian aristocrat, renounced her staggering wealth to lead a life of ascetic renunciation. Her life spans many crucial events in the history of the later Roman Empire.
Elizabeth A. Clark is John Carlisle Kilgo Professor, Emerita, at Duke University. Her previous books include History, Theory, Text; Reading Renunciation; Founding the Fathers; and The Fathers Refounded.
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Acknowledgments Maps Family Trees Abbreviations Chapter One: Finding Melania Chapter Two: Rome: Empire, City, and Church Chapter Three: Aristocracy, Family, and Property Chapter Four: Pagans and Christians in Late Ancient Rome Chapter Five: Ascetic Renunciation Chapter Six: Exiting Rome and the Sack of the City Chapter Seven: To Sicily and North Africa Chapter Eight: To Jerusalem Chapter Nine: To Constantinople and Back Translation: The Life of Saint Melania the Younger Notes Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Maps Family Trees Abbreviations Chapter One: Finding Melania Chapter Two: Rome: Empire, City, and Church Chapter Three: Aristocracy, Family, and Property Chapter Four: Pagans and Christians in Late Ancient Rome Chapter Five: Ascetic Renunciation Chapter Six: Exiting Rome and the Sack of the City Chapter Seven: To Sicily and North Africa Chapter Eight: To Jerusalem Chapter Nine: To Constantinople and Back Translation: The Life of Saint Melania the Younger Notes Bibliography Index
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