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Melania : early Christianity through the life of one family / edited by Catherine M. Chin and Caroline T. Schroeder.

Contributor(s): Chin, Catherine M, 1972- [editor.] | Schroeder, Caroline T, 1971- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextSeries: Christianity in late antiquity (North American Patristics Society): 2.; Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature: Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 328 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520292086; 0520292081Subject(s): Melania, the Elder, Saint, 341?-410? | Melania, the Younger, Saint, 385?-439 | Christian women saints | Women in Christianity -- HistoryDDC classification: 270.2092/2 LOC classification: BR1720.M37 | C45 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index.
Contents:
Aristocracy -- Apostles and aristocrats / Catherine M. Chin -- Namesake and inheritance / Christine Luckritz Marquis -- Exemplary women / Caroline T. Schroeder -- Body and family -- Holy households / Maria Doerfler -- Wounded by divine love / Kristi Upson-Saia -- Gender and memory -- Memories of the martyrs / L. Stephanie Cobb -- The memory of Melania / Rebecca Krawiec -- Wisdom and heresy -- A life in letters / Robin Darling Young -- Friends and heretics / Susanna Drake -- Posthumous Orthodoxy / Christine Shepardson -- In the holy places -- The lost generation / Andrew S. Jacobs -- Sing, o daughter(s) of Zion / Stephen J. Shoemaker -- Modernities -- Afterlives / Michael Penn -- Monastic revivals / Stephen J. Davis -- The future of sainthood / Elizabeth A. Castelli.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-324) and index.

Part one. Aristocracy -- Apostles and aristocrats / Catherine M. Chin -- Namesake and inheritance / Christine Luckritz Marquis -- Exemplary women / Caroline T. Schroeder -- Part two: Body and family -- Holy households / Maria Doerfler -- Wounded by divine love / Kristi Upson-Saia -- Part three. Gender and memory -- Memories of the martyrs / L. Stephanie Cobb -- The memory of Melania / Rebecca Krawiec -- Part four. Wisdom and heresy -- A life in letters / Robin Darling Young -- Friends and heretics / Susanna Drake -- Posthumous Orthodoxy / Christine Shepardson -- Part five. In the holy places -- The lost generation / Andrew S. Jacobs -- Sing, o daughter(s) of Zion / Stephen J. Shoemaker -- Part six. Modernities -- Afterlives / Michael Penn -- Monastic revivals / Stephen J. Davis -- The future of sainthood / Elizabeth A. Castelli.

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