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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-10-24
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9004524770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoman imperialism has historically been viewed as displays of masculine power and agency. This volume explores the intersection of imperialism and gender to deepen our understanding of systems of power to provide a gendered history of Roman imperialism.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2024-04-08
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9004537465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definition that made the empire into a superstructure whose coherence was embedded in its diversity.
Author: Ruth Hoberman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997-04-25
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1438406819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an illuminating context for the historical fiction of six modern British women writers, and a good synthesis of the theoretical work in the area from Fetterley and Schweikart to Fleishman, LaCapra, and Hayden White. Aruging that history provides a set of stories against which, and through which, human beings define ourselves, the author finds in the historical fiction of six modern women writers a range of strategies for claiming their cultural heritage while simultaneously differentiating themselves, as women, from its masculinist understanding of the past. Gendering Classicism explores the intersection of feminism, historical fiction, and modernism through the work of six writers, all of whom wrote historical novels set in ancient Greece or Rome: Naomi Mitchison, Mary Butts, Laura Riding, Phyllis Bentley, Bryher, and Mary Renault. As women gained access to higher education in the late nineteenth century, they gained access also to the classical learning that had for so long demarcated and legitimated the British ruling classes. Steeped in misogyny, the classical tradition presented educated women with a massive project: the recasting of that tradition in terms that acknowledged the existence of women--as historical agents and interpreters of the historical past.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-02-07
Total Pages: 538
ISBN-13: 9004511407
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume breaks new ground by exploring how the political actors of different formal statuses, age, and gender were able to “take the lead” in ancient Rome through initiating communication, proposing new solutions, and prompting others to act.
Author: Cynthia Damon
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-05
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9004383972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEris vs. Aemulatio examines the functioning and effect of competition in ancient society, in both its productive and destructive aspects.
Author: Elena Muñiz-Grijalvo
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-06-30
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 1000892603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume elucidates how processions, from antiquity to the present, contribute to creating consensus with regards to both political power and communitarian experiences. Many classical sources often only tangentially allude to processions, focusing instead on other ritual moments, such as sacrifice. This book adopts a comparative approach, bringing together historians of antiquity and later periods as well as social anthropologists working on contemporary societies, analysing both ancient and modern examples of how rituals, symbols, actors, and spectators interact in the construction of communities. The different examples explored in this study illustrate the performative capacity of processions to construct reality: the protagonism of image and movement, the design of cultic itineraries, and the active participation of members of the public. In studying these examples, readers develop an understanding of how power is exercised and perceived, the extent of its legitimacy, and the limits of community in a variety of case studies. Processions and the Construction of Communities in Antiquity is of interest to students and scholars of the classical and early Christian worlds, especially those working on cult, religion, and community formation. The volume also appeals to social anthropologists interested in these issues across a broader chronology.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-02-13
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9004534512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering a broad chronological and geographic range and a great variety of source types, this volume examines the presence and activities of ancient women in the public domain, for example as rulers, patrons, priestesses, wives, athletes and pilgrims.
Author: Iain Ferris
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2024-06-20
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1803277823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study considers the relationship between geography and power in the Roman world, most particularly the visualisation of geographical knowledge in myriad forms of geography products: geographical treatises, histories, poems, personifications, landscape representations, images of barbarian peoples, maps, itineraries, and imported foodstuffs.
Author: H. Herzog
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-07-20
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0230623379
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aim of this book is to suggest an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex relations of gender, religion and politics in light of paradigmatic shifts in theories of modernity and the growing body of studies on gender and religion.
Author: Ruth Hoberman
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1997-04-25
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780791433362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGendering Classicism explores the intersection of feminism, historical fiction, and modernism through the work of six writers, all of whom wrote historical novels set in ancient Greece or Rome: Naomi Mitchison, Mary Butts, Laura Riding, Phyllis Bentley, Bryher, and Mary Renault. As women gained access to higher education in the late nineteenth century, they gained access also to the classical learning that had for so long demarcated and legitimated the British ruling classes. Steeped in misogyny, the classical tradition presented educated women with a massive project: the recasting of that tradition in terms that acknowledged the existence of women - as historical agents and interpreters of the historical past.
