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- Bayless, Martha, et al.
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Introduction
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In: Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern Societies / edited by Martha Bayless, Jonas Liliequist, Lewis Webb. - Turnhout : Brepols. - 9782503596327 ; , s. 9-13
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Gender and status competition in pre-modern societies
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Editorial collection (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This innovative volume of cultural history offers a unique exploration of how gender and status competition have intersected across different periods and places. The contributions collected here focus on the role of women and the practice of masculinity in setting as varied as ancient Rome, China, Iran and Arabia, medieval and early modern England, and early modern Italy, France, and Scandinavia, as well as exploring issues that affected people of all social rank, from raillery and pranks to shaming, male boasting about sexual conquests, court rituals, violence, and the use and display of wealth. Particular attention is paid to the performance of such issues, with chapters examining status and gender through cultural practices, especielly specific (re)presentations of women. These include Roman priestesses, early Christian virgin martyrs, flirtation in seventh-century Arabia, and the attempt by an early modern French woman to take her place among the immortals. Together this wide-ranging and fascinating array of studies from renowned scholars offers new insights into how and why different cultures responded to the drive for status, and the complications of gender within that drive.
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- Vaïopoulou, Maria, et al.
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Roman and Early Byzantine evidence from the area of Palamas. A preliminary report of the ongoing Greek-Swedish archaeological work in the region of Karditsa, Thessaly
- 2022
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In: Opuscula Atheniensia : Annual of the Swedish Institute at Athens. - : Editorial Committee of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome (ECSI). - 0078-5520 .- 2000-0898. ; 15, s. 77-103
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents preliminary results of the Palamas Archaeological Project relating to the Late Roman and Early Byzantine periods in the study area in western Thessaly, Greece. These periods are comparatively understudied in Thessaly, and the aim of this work is to highlight the extent of the material and the potential of investigating the archaeology of Late Antiquity in the region. The work was centred on excavations and survey at the site at Vlochos, alongside architectural survey at the neighbouring site on Kourtikiano hill. The paper also presents studies into Late Roman and Early Byzantine material found during cleaning at Vlochos. Additionally, an unpublished inscription spoliated in a church in nearby Palamas is presented. The results show a dynamic and detailed range of Late Antique activity in the area, adding significantly to our understanding of the post-Classical habitations on the western Thessalian plain.
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- Webb, Lewis, 1986
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Female Interventions in Politics in the libera res publica: Structures and Practices
- 2022
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In: Leadership and Initiative in Late Republican and Early Imperial Rome / Roman M. Frolov and Christopher Burden-Strevens (eds.). - Leiden : Brill. - 2352-8656. - 9789004511392 ; , s. 151-188
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter charts the structures and practices of female interventions in politics in the libera res publica (509–27BCE). Previous scholarship has emphasized the efflorescence of female political activity in the first century BCE. Yet Greek and Roman authors retrojected such activity into their histories of early Rome: mytho-historical paradigms are the intercession of the Sabine women and of Veturia with Coriolanus. Furthermore, female benefactions saved Rome from financial and military crises in the fourth and third centuries bce. For such interventions, women received enduring privileges and status symbols. Moving beyond previous scholarship, I argue that the interventions of senatorial women like Servilia, Iulia, Terentia, Hortensia, and Octavia were not novel, but a manifestation of a long tradition of women seizing political initiative. This chapter outlines and evaluates some of the structures of female interventions—the ordo matronarum, matronal meetings, and religious roles—and their practices—intercession, benefactions, and participation in family consilia. Through numerous formal and informal initiatives, inside and outside of the domus, women proactively engaged in the res publica.
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- Webb, Lewis, 1986, et al.
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Gendering the Roman triumph : Elite women and the triumph in the Republic and early Empire
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In: Gendering Roman Imperialism. - Leiden : BRILL. - 1572-0500. - 9789004524774 ; 43, s. 58-95, s. 58-95
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This chapter re-evaluates the relationships among elite women and the triumph in the Republic and early Empire (509 BCE–47 CE), demonstrating that during the Republic female relatives of triumphal generals were associated with and integrated into the triumph via the triumphal chariot, ancestor masks, funerals, and names, and that these associations continued and grew in the early Empire to encompass imperial innovations.We show that during the Republic and Empire some unmarried elite daughters accompanied their fathers in the triumphal chariot itself, that triumphal ancestor masks and painted images celebrated both patrilineal and matrilineal triumphal ancestry in elite houses, that triumphal ancestor masks were also present at public funerals for elite women and some of these funerals contained further triumphal themes, that some elite women were connected through their nomenclature to the triumph, and that in the Empire imperial women were increasingly integrated into and associated with the triumph, and some hosted triumphal banquets.We argue that through these associations elite women were invested and involved in the triumph, accruing status for themselves and their families. We conclude that female relatives of triumphal generals were beneficiaries of the triumph and that the triumph itself was fundamentally a family affair.
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- Webb, Lewis, 1986
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(Re)presentations — Introduction
- 2022
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In: Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern Societies / / edited by Martha Bayless, Jonas Liliequist, Lewis Webb.. - Turnhout : Brepols. - 9782503596327 ; , s. 251-254
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- Webb, Lewis, 1986
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(Re)presentations — Reflections and Concluding Remarks
- 2022
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In: Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern Societies / edited by Martha Bayless, Jonas Liliequist, Lewis Webb. - Turnhout : Brepols. - 9782503596327 ; , s. 333-336
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