Melania the Younger : from Rome to Jerusalem / Elizabeth A. Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Ann), 1938- author.

Series:

Women in antiquity.

Oxford scholarship online.

Women in antiquity

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian women saints--Biography.

Christian women saints.

Melania, the Younger, Saint, 385?-439.

Melania.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York State : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Melania the Younger' analyzes one of the most richly detailed stories of a woman of late antiquity. Melania, an early fifth-century Roman Christian aristocrat, renounced her many possessions and staggering wealth to lead a life of ascetic renunciation. Hers is a tale of 'riches to rags.'

Contents:

One: Finding Melania

Two: Rome: empire, city, and church

Three: Aristocracy, family, and property

Four: Pagans and Christians in late ancient Rome

Five: Ascetic renunciation

Six: Exiting Rome and the sack of the city

Seven: To Sicily and North Africa

Eight: To Jerusalem

Nine: To Constantinople and back

Translation: The life of Saint Melania the Younger.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes a translation from the Greek of Gerontius's Vita Melaniae Junioris by Theodore C. Papaloizos.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-088826-1

0-19-088824-5

0-19-088825-3