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Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem (Women in Antiquity),Used
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Product DescriptionMelania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem explores the richly detailed story of Melania, an early fifthcentury 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 Jerusalemall while founding monasteries along the way. Towards the end of her life, she traveled to Constantinople (presentday Istanbul) in an attempt to convert to Christianity her stillpagan 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 longtime assistant who succeeded her in the direction of the male and female monasteries in Jerusalem, accompanies this biographical study.Review'... Clark seizes every opportunity to connect Melania's story to larger economic and social structures. The result is extraordinary. Readers are treated to expert distillations of a wide range of complex topics ...' BLAKE LEYERLE, University of Notre Dame, ARYS: Antiquity, Religions and Societies'The study is remarkable. Clark, an experienced teacher and an accomplished scholar, has drawn a compelling and inspiring picture of early Christianity.... [It] cleverly blends solid philology and exciting storytelling. Thanks to her mastery of the subject and her pedagogical skills, Clark has succeeded in making eminently complex topics, sometimes distant from our current concerns, understandable and interesting. Clark's book is a scientific pageturner. I hope that this accessible study will serve as an introductory text for courses on paleochristianism.' Bryn Mawr Classical Review'Magisterial.... [Clark] shows us how dramatically what we can see in Melania has changed.' Times Literary SupplementAbout the AuthorElizabeth 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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