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This is the first book-length study of children in one of the birthplaces of early Christian monasticism, Egypt. Although comprised of men and women who had renounced sex and family, the monasteries of late antiquity raised children, educated them, and expected them to carry on their monastic lineage and legacies into the future. Children within monasteries existed in a liminal space, simultaneously vulnerable to the whims and abuses of adults and also cherished as potential future monastic prodigies. Caroline T. Schroeder examines diverse sources - letters, rules, saints' lives, art, and documentary evidence - to probe these paradoxes. In doing so, she demonstrates how early Egyptian monasteries provided an intergenerational continuity of social, cultural, and economic capital while also contesting the traditional family's claims to these forms of social continuity.

Christian children --- Children --- Families --- Church history --- Religious life --- History --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Family --- Family life --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Childhood --- Kids (Children) --- Pedology (Child study) --- Youngsters --- Age groups --- Life cycle, Human --- Social aspects --- Social conditions --- Children. --- Families. --- Religious life. --- Primitive and early church. --- To 1500. --- Egypt.

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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.

Christian women saints. --- Women in Christianity --- Women in Christianity. --- History. --- Melania, --- Christian women saints --- History --- Christian saints, Women --- Women Christian saints --- Christian saints --- Women saints --- Women in Christianity - History --- Melania iunior, matrona Romana --- Melania, - the Elder, Saint, - 341?-410 --- Melania, - the Younger, Saint, - 385?-439 --- ancient history. --- ancient world. --- antiquity. --- asceticism. --- augustine. --- bishop. --- catholicism. --- chantbook. --- christian history. --- christianity. --- church history. --- constantinian. --- early christian history. --- feminism. --- gender norms. --- gender studies. --- gender. --- history. --- melania the elder. --- melania the younger. --- nonfiction. --- patriarchal religion. --- patriarchy. --- religion. --- religious women. --- roman empire. --- sexuality. --- spirituality. --- women and religion. --- women. --- womens studies.

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