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Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger were major figures in early Christian history, using their wealth, status, and forceful personalities to shape the development of nearly every aspect of the religion we now know as Christianity. This volume examines their influence on late antique Christianity and provides an insightful portrait of their legacies in the modern world. Departing from the traditionally patriarchal view, Melania gives a poignant and sometimes surprising account of how the rise of Christian institutions in the Roman Empire shaped our understanding of women’s roles in the larger world.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 344
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Christianity in Late Antiquity
Publication Date:
27 October 2020
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520379213
Format: Paperback
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"The decision to zero in on the two Melanias produces obvious benefits: the interlocking papers build to a sort of ‘thick description’ of late fourth- and early fifth-century Christianity, and recent analytical approaches to its study . . . this book would make an excellent companion for a special subject or graduate course on asceticism in late antiquity. "
Catherine M. Chin is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis and author of Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World.
Caroline T. Schroeder is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of the Pacific and author of Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe.
Caroline T. Schroeder is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of the Pacific and author of Monastic Bodies: Discipline and Salvation in Shenoute of Atripe.
Introduction
Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder
PART ONE. ARISTOCRACY
1. Apostles and Aristocrats
Catherine M. Chin
2. Namesake and Inheritance
Christine Luckritz Marquis
3. Exemplary Women
Caroline T. Schroeder
PART TWO. BODY AND FAMILY
4. Holy Households
Maria Doerfler
5. Wounded by Divine Love
Kristi Upson-Saia
PART THREE. GENDER AND MEMORY
6. Memories of the Martyrs
L. Stephanie Cobb
7. The Memory of Melania
Rebecca Krawiec
PART FOUR. WISDOM AND HERESY
8. A Life in Letters
Robin Darling Young
9. Friends and Heretics
Susanna Drake
10. Posthumous Orthodoxy
Christine Shepardson
PART FIVE. IN THE HOLY PLACES
11. The Lost Generation
Andrew S. Jacobs
12. Sing, O Daughter(s) of Zion
Stephen J. Shoemaker
PART SIX. MODERNITIES
13. Afterlives
Michael Penn
14. Monastic Revivals
Stephen J. Davis
15. The Future of Sainthood
Elizabeth A. Castelli
Afterword
Randall Styers
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder
PART ONE. ARISTOCRACY
1. Apostles and Aristocrats
Catherine M. Chin
2. Namesake and Inheritance
Christine Luckritz Marquis
3. Exemplary Women
Caroline T. Schroeder
PART TWO. BODY AND FAMILY
4. Holy Households
Maria Doerfler
5. Wounded by Divine Love
Kristi Upson-Saia
PART THREE. GENDER AND MEMORY
6. Memories of the Martyrs
L. Stephanie Cobb
7. The Memory of Melania
Rebecca Krawiec
PART FOUR. WISDOM AND HERESY
8. A Life in Letters
Robin Darling Young
9. Friends and Heretics
Susanna Drake
10. Posthumous Orthodoxy
Christine Shepardson
PART FIVE. IN THE HOLY PLACES
11. The Lost Generation
Andrew S. Jacobs
12. Sing, O Daughter(s) of Zion
Stephen J. Shoemaker
PART SIX. MODERNITIES
13. Afterlives
Michael Penn
14. Monastic Revivals
Stephen J. Davis
15. The Future of Sainthood
Elizabeth A. Castelli
Afterword
Randall Styers
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index