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ISBN: 881643502X 9788816435025 Year: 1996 Volume: 2 Publisher: Milano: Jaca Book,
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Christian women saints --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Biography --- Biographies --- Melania, --- Christian saints --- Saints --- Canonization --- Melania the Younger, Saint --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Christian saints - Biography --- Melania, - the Younger, Saint, - 385?-439
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Year: 1900 Publisher: Roma: Bertero,
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Melania iunior, matrona Romana --- Tombs --- Catacombs. --- Classical antiquities --- Melania, - the Younger, Saint, - 385?-439.
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ISBN: 9780190888237 0190888237 9780190888220 0190888229 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press,
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"Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem 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." Born to high Roman aristocracy in the late fourth century, Melania encountered numerous difficulties posed by family members, Roman officials, and historical circumstances themselves in disposing of her wealth, property spread across at least eight Roman provinces, and thousands of slaves. Leaving Rome with her entourage a few years before Alaric the Goth's sack of Rome in 410, she journeyed to Sicily, then to North Africa (where she had estates upon which founded monasteries), before settling in Jerusalem. There, after some years of semi-solitary existence, she founded more monastic complexes. Towards the end of her life, she traveled to Constantinople (present-day Istanbul) in an attempt to convert to Christianity her still-pagan uncle, who was on a state mission to the eastern Roman court. Throughout her life, she was accustomed to meet and be assisted by emperors and empresses, bishops, and other high dignitaries. Embracing a fairly extreme asceticism, Melania died in Jerusalem in 439. Her Life, two versions of which (Greek and Latin) were discovered in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries, was composed by a long-time assistant who succeeded her in the direction of the male and female monasteries in Jerusalem. An English translation of the Greek version of her Life accompanies the text of this nine-chapter book"--
Christian women saints --- Christian women saints. --- Homes. --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Melania, --- Homes and haunts. --- Melania, - the Younger, Saint, - 385?-439 --- Melania iunior, matrona Romana
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ISBN: 9780520292086 9780520965638 0520292081 0520965639 0520379217 Year: 2016 Volume: 2 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,
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Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger were major figures in early Christian history, using their wealth, status, and forceful personalities to shape the development of nearly every aspect of the religion we now know as Christianity. This volume examines their influence on late antique Christianity and provides an insightful portrait of their legacies in the modern world. Departing from the traditionally patriarchal view, Melania gives a poignant and sometimes surprising account of how the rise of Christian institutions in the Roman Empire shaped our understanding of women's roles in the larger world.
Christian women saints. --- Women in Christianity --- Women in Christianity. --- History. --- Melania, --- Christian women saints --- History --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Christian saints --- Women saints --- Women in Christianity - History --- Melania iunior, matrona Romana --- Melania, - the Elder, Saint, - 341?-410 --- Melania, - the Younger, Saint, - 385?-439 --- ancient history. --- ancient world. --- antiquity. --- asceticism. --- augustine. --- bishop. --- catholicism. --- chantbook. --- christian history. --- christianity. --- church history. --- constantinian. --- early christian history. --- feminism. --- gender norms. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- history. --- melania the elder. --- melania the younger. --- nonfiction. --- patriarchal religion. --- patriarchy. --- religion. --- religious women. --- roman empire. --- sexuality. --- spirituality. --- women and religion. --- women. --- womens studies.
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