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Apostles and Aristocrats
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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 Melania, and imperial and episcopal property around the city of Rome, to explore the ways in which late antique concerns over family lineage, inheritance, and the replacement of one generation with another, became intertwined with concerns over apostolic succession, so that the history of Christianity and the history of the Roman aristocracy could become fundamentally the same.
Title: Apostles and Aristocrats
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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 Melania, and imperial and episcopal property around the city of Rome, to explore the ways in which late antique concerns over family lineage, inheritance, and the replacement of one generation with another, became intertwined with concerns over apostolic succession, so that the history of Christianity and the history of the Roman aristocracy could become fundamentally the same.
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