Abstract
This chapter first provides a historical and biographical introduction to the lives of Melania the Elder and her granddaughter Melania the Younger. It then surveys the treatment of these figures in scholarship on early Christianity and on early Christian women over the course of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, focusing particularly on their presentation in the work of historian Elizabeth A. Clark. Finally, the chapter provides an overview of the following chapters of the book, indicating how each of these chapters contributes to a new way of understanding the lives of the Melanias, and to new ways of writing the history of early Christianity.
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