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Melania the Younger - From Rome to Jerusalem (Hardcover)
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Melania the Younger - From Rome to Jerusalem (Hardcover)
Series: Women in Antiquity
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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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