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Empresses-in-waiting: Female Power and Performance at the Late Roman Court (Women in Ancient Cultures) - Hardcover

 
9781802075939: Empresses-in-waiting: Female Power and Performance at the Late Roman Court (Women in Ancient Cultures)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1802075933 ISBN 13: 9781802075939
Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Empresses-in-Waiting comprises case studies of late antique empresses, female members of imperial dynasties, and female members of the highest nobility of the late Roman empire, ranging from the fourth to the seventh centuries AD. Situated in the context of the broader developments of scholarship on late antique and byzantine empresses, this volume explores the political agency, religious authority, and influence of imperial and near-imperial women within the Late Roman imperial court, which is understood as a complex spatial, social, and cultural system, the centre of patronage networks, and an arena for elite competition. The studies explore female performance and representation in literary and visual media as well as in court ceremonial, and discuss the opportunities and constraints of female power within a male dominated court environment and the broader realms of imperial activity. By focusing on imperial women, the volume not only addresses questions of gendered rhetoric and agency but throws into relief general dynamics in the exercise of imperial power during a period in which the classical Mediterranean world at large, as well as the Roman monarchy, underwent crucial transformations.

An Open Access version of the Lewis Dagnall's chapter The Empress Sophia and East Roman Foreign Policy will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Christian Rollinger is Reader in Ancient History, Trier University.

Nadine Viermann is Assistant Professor in History of Late Antiquity and Early Byzantium, Durham University.

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Verlag
Liverpool University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1802075933
ISBN 13 
9781802075939
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
352
Herausgeber
Rollinger Christian, Viermann Nadine
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