[H-verkko] Helsinki, "Melania the Younger, aristocrat and ascetic" -lecture by Juliette Day

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Agricolan tapahtumakalenteriin on lähetetty uusi ilmoitus:
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"Melania the Younger, aristocrat and ascetic" -lecture by Juliette Day

Helsinki, Vuorikatu 3
7.4.2014 klo 17:15
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The Finnish Society of Church History organizes a lecture once a month to
present some of the latest historical scholarship. On Monday, April 7 the
lecture is given by PhD, University lecturer Juliette Day. Her topic is:

"Melania the Younger, aristocrat and ascetic"

Melania the Younger was the only daughter of a leading Roman senatorial family
who tried and failed to be allowed to remain unmarried, but who died as the
founder of a woman's monastery on the Mount of Olives c.440; a journey which
takes her to Augustine's circle in North Africa, to the desert monks in Egypt
and to the imperial palace in Constantinople. Much recent scholarship on her
biography has despaired at finding any history behind the typically biased
literary representation of women and behind the generic conventions of
hagiography. In this paper I will present the story of Melania and show how
social, cultural, political and theological studies of late antiquity support
the historicity of the Vita and that the genre may reveal the intended readers
and not just obscure the author and subject.

Date and time: Monday, April 7, 5:15 pm
Place: The faculty room (Vuorikatu 3, Helsinki, 5th floor), Faculty of theology

Welcome!

Tiedustelut: Sini Mikkola (sini.mikkola at helsinki.fi), puhelin 09-19122012
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