...) and rather unusual (within the monastic milieu) situation in which the legacies of Melania the Elder and her namesake, Melania the Younger, are found.  While Melania the Younger did follow in her grandmother's footsteps, fleeing Rome (though under decidedly different circumstances) and taking up the monastic...

...The Life of Melania the Younger is filled with emotional language and emotionally charged interactions between characters. Desire, zeal, distress, and other emotions paradoxically drive events in a narrative about a woman exceedingly successful in the art of self-control...

... the rhetorical construction of motherhood in late ancient ascetic writings, and the interplay between physical and spiritual portrayals of family relations in the lives of late ancient women ascetics. Melania the Younger asceticism childbirth Gregory of Nyssa mortality motherhood Blesilla Jerome Paula...

... Gregory Nazianzus Aphrahat Evagrius of Pontus Melania the Younger Melania the Younger early Christianity health medicine wounds asceticism pain In the opening chapters of his Life of Melania the Younger, Gerontius describes the young Melania’s intense longing for an ascetic life...

...In the fifth century, the critiques leveled by Pelagius and his supporters troubled Augustine so much that he spent much of his last years refuting the Pelagians and distinguishing his thoughts on sin, sinlessness, and baptism from theirs. Melania the Younger and her husband were caught...

... by producing a new aristocracy of talent. imperial space Jerusalem lost generation migration Melania the Younger Palladius exile Melania the Elder Rome Jerome asceticism Holy Land travel Melania the Elder Melania the Younger Jerusalem Roman Empire late antiquity early Christianity lost...

...Melania the Younger died more than a decade before the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE) and the ensuing bitter conflicts between Chalcedonian and miaphysite Christians. Nevertheless, the Greek Vita by Gerontius portrays her as actively involved in numerous religious and political...

... decades earlier, Gerontius’s Life of Melania the Younger. Rampolla’s publication spawned a series of early twentieth-century reactions to Melania’s biography. This work sometimes appeared in scholarly journals. Much appeared in popular press articles such as one that compared Melania’s...

...This chapter first provides a historical and biographical introduction to the lives of Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger. It then surveys the treatment of these figures in scholarship on early Christianity and on early Christian women over the course of the late twentieth...

...The Life of Melania the Younger repeatedly refers to Melania and Pinian’s familial house in Rome, a house which “none of the senators in Rome had the means to buy” (Vita 14). This chapter uses the material remains of Roman property, both the family property...

... of Christianizing this space.  Perhaps nowhere are all of these elements more on display than in Jerusalem during the lifetimes of Melania the Elder and Melania the Younger. This chapter explores the unprecedented knowledge of the songs that were sung in late ancient Christian worship, made known through...

...Melania the Elder and Melania the Younger both traveled to Egypt and visited monks there before settling in Jerusalem and founding monasteries there. Despite their longstanding reputation as prominent saints in Western churches, the impact of these two ascetic women upon the Egyptian church and its...

...The lives of Melania the Elder and Melania the Younger span one of the most important periods of Christian history, reaching from the reign of Constantine through the reign of Theodosius II. They and their family members were well known to some of the most influential political and cultural figures...