Melania the Younger: From Rome to Jerusalem by Elizabeth A. Clark (review)

Clark's book can be considered in three sections covering Melania's family and social context, her travels, and a translation of the Greek Vita (reproduced with emendations from Theodore C. Papaloizos' version in his 1978 dissertation at the Catholic University of America). Here Clark focuses extensively on late Roman aristocracy as well as on Christian asceticism of the period, which often saw riches as a serious obstacle to the salvation of the soul. [...]Melania, Pinian, and Albina moved to Jerusalem, which would be their final home.