[PDF] The Life Of Melania The Younger eBook

Author : Gerontius
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : E. Mellen Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 37,8 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Christian saints
ISBN :

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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.

Author : Catherine Michael Chin
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0520379217

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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.

Author : Mary Jordan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982113413

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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.

Author : Elizabeth A. Clark
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 11,50 MB
Release : 1996-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0060614099

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" ... a difinitive and most compelling documentary history of the relationship between Christianity and half of its membership ... This new edition ... includes fully updated introductions, newly available source material, and incisive contemporary analysis ..."--Back cover

Author : William V. Harris
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 10,70 MB
Release : 2021-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004452796

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The classicist and historian Alan Cameron (1938-2017) was one of the scholars who most contributed to the refoundation of late-antique studies. In this tribute fourteen new studies, which range from the first century AD to the ninth, pay him homage.

Author : Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN :

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"In recent years, secular life and lifestyles in late antiquity and the Middle Ages have been illuminated through renewed attention to the economic and social history of households, while scholarship on women has produced studies of the lives and the devotional reading of laywomen and women religious. This volume is a collection that unites study of the household church's roles in women's history to the impact of women's householding on the history of the church."--BOOK JACKET

Author : Elizabeth A. Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 0190888229

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"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"--