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

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

9780190888268 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.

English

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

BR1720.M37 C57 2021

270.2092

'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.'

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Women in antiquity.
Oxford scholarship online.

Gerontius, -485. Vita Melaniae Junioris. English.

Print version: 9780190888220

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