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Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem

by Elizabeth A. Clark (john Carlisle Kilgo Professor, Emerita, John Carlisle Kilgo Professor, Emerita, Duke University)

  • Paperback
  • 304 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.5 x 23.2 x 2.3 cm

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For history enthusiasts and Christian readers alike

Reveals challenges faced by early Christian figures

You will gain inspiration from her remarkable faith journey

Discover the inspiring journey of Melania the Younger, a Roman aristocrat who embraced a life of asceticism.

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Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem explores the richly detailed story of Melania, an early fifth-century Roman Christian aristocrat who renounced her 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 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, finally settling in Jerusalem-all while founding monasteries along the way. 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. A new English translation of her Life, composed by a long-time assistant who succeeded her in the direction of the male and female monasteries in Jerusalem, accompanies this biographical study.
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  • Title

    Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem

  • Author

    Elizabeth A. Clark (john Carlisle Kilgo Professor, Emerita, John Carlisle Kilgo Professor, Emerita, Duke University)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    February 2021

  • Weight

    444g

  • Page Count

    304

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.2 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780190888237

  • ISBN-10

    0190888237

  • Eden Code

    5317034