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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"--

Christian women saints --- Christian women saints. --- Homes. --- Saintes chrétiennes --- Melania, --- Homes and haunts. --- Melania, - the Younger, Saint, - 385?-439 --- Melania iunior, matrona Romana

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Authority in literature. --- Christian literature, English (Middle) --- Christian literature, English (Middle). --- Christian women saints --- Femininity in literature. --- Religion and literature --- History and criticism. --- In literature --- History

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Religieuse allemande du 12e siècle, sainte Hildegarde de Bingen fut une femme aux multiples facettes. Mystique, compositrice, femme de lettres, elle est docteur de l'Eglise et particulièrement connue aujourd'hui pour ses dons de guérisseuse et sa connaissance de la médecine par les plantes. L'ouvrage se propose alors d'explorer ces multiples aspects de la vie de Hildegarde de Bingen pour éclairer son oeuvre.Du contexte symbolique de l'âge roman qui a nourri la pensée de Hildegarde de Bingen à l'explication de ses visions en passant par l'étude approfondie des bases de sa médecine, de sa musique ou sa vision particulière de l'homme au sein de la création, Bernard Héritier propose un panorama précis, complet et accessible de l'héritage extraordinaire de cette femme hors du commun.

Christian women saints --- Christian saints --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Women saints --- Hildegard, --- Hildegardis Bingensis --- Hildegard von Bingen --- Hildegard van Bingen --- Hildegarde de Bingen --- Hildegard of Bingen --- von Bingen, Hildegard --- Bingen, Hildegard von, --- Hildegarde, --- Hildegardis, --- Ildegarda, --- 248 HILDEGARDIS BINGENSIS --- 248 HILDEGARDIS BINGENSIS Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion--HILDEGARDIS BINGENSIS --- 248 HILDEGARDIS BINGENSIS Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--HILDEGARDIS BINGENSIS --- Spiritualite. Ascese. Mystique. Theologie ascetique et mystique. Devotion--HILDEGARDIS BINGENSIS --- Spiritualiteit. Ascese. Mystiek. Vroomheid--HILDEGARDIS BINGENSIS