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Melania The Younger
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Author : Elizabeth A. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2021
Melania The Younger written by Elizabeth A. Clark and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with History categories.
"Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem 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." Born to high Roman aristocracy in the late fourth century, Melania encountered numerous difficulties posed by family members, Roman officials, and historical circumstances themselves 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 (where she had estates upon which founded monasteries), before settling in Jerusalem. There, after some years of semi-solitary existence, she founded more monastic complexes. 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. Her Life, two versions of which (Greek and Latin) were discovered in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries, was composed by a long-time assistant who succeeded her in the direction of the male and female monasteries in Jerusalem. An English translation of the Greek version of her Life accompanies the text of this nine-chapter book"--
The Life Of Melania The Younger
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Author : Gerontius
language : en
Publisher: New York ; Toronto : E. Mellen Press
Release Date : 1984
The Life Of Melania The Younger written by Gerontius and has been published by New York ; Toronto : E. Mellen Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Christian saints categories.
This is a translation of a life of a rich Roman matron, Melania, who was famous throughout the Christian world for her renunciations and her dedication to Christ. It reveals her as a woman who exerted a very strong influence on ascetic ideals in the time of the early Church.
The Life Of Melania The Younger
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Author : Elizabeth Ann Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Life Of Melania The Younger written by Elizabeth Ann Clark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with categories.
Melania
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Author : Catherine Michael Chin
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2020-10-27
Melania written by Catherine Michael Chin and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-27 with History categories.
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.
The Life Of Melania The Younger
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Author : Elizabeth A. Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-03-08
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Melania The Younger
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Author : Elizabeth A. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-03
Melania The Younger written by Elizabeth A. Clark and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-03 with Religion categories.
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.
The Life Of St Melania
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Author : Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1908
The Life Of St Melania written by Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1908 with categories.
Women Of Bible Lands
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Author : Martha Ann Kirk
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2004
Women Of Bible Lands written by Martha Ann Kirk and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Religion categories.
Women of Bible Lands is an anthology of biblical and early stories about and by Jewish, Christian, and some Muslim women from the 19th century B.C.E. to the 9th century C.E., and a guide noting sites of Israel, Palestine, Jordan, Sinai, Egypt, Tunisia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, and the Mediterranean Islands with which the women are associated. Book jacket.
The Art Of Her Deal
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Author : Mary Jordan
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-05-04
The Art Of Her Deal written by Mary Jordan and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this “scrupulously reported biography” (NPR) Jordan documents how Melania Trump had discussing being First Lady nearly two decades before she landed in the White House and how she encouraged her husband to enter the race for president. Based on interviews with more than one hundred people in five countries, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump is “an extraordinary work” (Salon) that draws an unprecedented portrait of the first lady. We see that behind the scenes Melania Trump is not only part of President Trump’s inner circle, but for some key decisions she has been his single most influential advisor. Jordan interviewed key people in Melania's close circle who speak publicly for the first time and uncovered never-before-seen photos and tapes of the tall woman with “tiger eyes,” as a judge in an early modeling contest said. The Art of Her Deal shows Melania’s ascent from a modest life, tracing her journey from childhood under a communist dictator to her complicated relationship with Donald Trump. The picture that emerges is “that the first lady is not a pawn but a player... and a woman able to get what she wants from one of the most powerful and transparently vain men in the world” (NPR). And while it is her husband who became famous for the phrase “the art of the deal,” this is the story of the art of her deal.
Sacred Fictions
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Author : Lynda L. Coon
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2010-11-24
Sacred Fictions written by Lynda L. Coon and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynda Coon unpacks these paradoxical representations to reveal the construction and circumscription of women's roles in the early Christian centuries. Coon discerns three distinct paradigms for female sanctity in saints' lives and patristic and monastic writings. Women are recurrently figured as repentant desert hermits, wealthy widows, or cloistered ascetic nuns, and biblical discourse informs the narrative content, rhetorical strategies, and symbolic meanings of these texts in complex and multivalent ways. If hagiographers made their women saints walk on water, resurrect the dead, or consecrate the Eucharist, they also curbed the power of women by teaching that the daughters of Eve must make their bodies impenetrable through militant chastity or spiritual exile and must eradicate self-indulgence through ascetic attire or philanthropy. The windows the sacred fiction of holy women open on the past are far from transparent; driven by both literary invention and moral imperative, the stories they tell helped shape Western gender constructs that have survived into modern times.