- Editor’s Preface
- Author’s Preface
- Roman Society in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries
- Melania the Patrician Heiress, A.D. 383-403
- The Great Renunciation, A.D. 403-407
- Ascetical Life at Jerusalem, A.D. 417-439
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- The text of this work is taken from the book The Life of Saint Melania, by Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro, translated by Ellen Mary Agnes Leahy, edited by Father Herbert Henry Charles Thurston, S.J., and published by Benziger Brothers in 1908.
- The cover image is a detail of a miniature of Saint Melania the Younger from the ‘Menologion of Basil II’, c.985, artist unknown; swiped from Wikimedia Commons.