Elizabeth A. Clark (John Carlisle Kilgo Professor, Emerita, John Ca

Melania the Younger

From Rome to Jerusalem

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Produktbeschreibung

Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem explores one of the most richly detailed stories of a woman of late antiquity. Melania, an early fifth-century Roman Christian aristocrat, renounced her staggering wealth to lead a life of ascetic renunciation. Her life spans many crucial events in the history of the later Roman Empire.

Produktdetails

• Women in Antiquity
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 232mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780190888237
• ISBN-10: 0190888237
• Artikelnr.: 60556070

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth 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.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Maps
Family Trees
Abbreviations
Chapter One: Finding Melania
Chapter Two: Rome: Empire, City, and Church
Chapter Three: Aristocracy, Family, and Property
Chapter Four: Pagans and Christians in Late Ancient Rome
Chapter Five: Ascetic Renunciation
Chapter Six: Exiting Rome and the Sack of the City
Chapter Seven: To Sicily and North Africa
Chapter Eight: To Jerusalem
Chapter Nine: To Constantinople and Back
Translation: The Life of Saint Melania the Younger
Notes
Bibliography
Index