Matronage: Handlungsstrategien und soziale Netzwerke antiker Herrscherfrauen ; Beiträge eines Kolloquiums an der Universität Osnabrück vom 22. bis 24. März 2012

The conference volume deals with the scope of action and individual chances of power of women related to rulers of pre-modern times. An introduction is followed by 15 examples from the late 3rd mill. to the Early Middle Ages. The precise topics are networking at the court in Ur, ethno-archaeological...

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Corporate Author: Universität Osnabrück (Other)
Contributors: Kunst, Christiane 1963- (Editor) ; Schulz, Anja (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:German
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Published: Rahden VML Verlag Marie Leidorf 2013
In: Osnabrücker Forschungen zu Altertum und Antike-Rezeption (20)
Year: 2013
Series/Journal:Osnabrücker Forschungen zu Altertum und Antike-Rezeption 20
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Classical antiquity / Ruler / Wife / Scope of action / History
Further subjects:B Empresses
B Queens
B Women in public life History To 1500 Congresses
B Conference program 2012 (Osnabrück)
B Women Political activity History To 1500 Congresses
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Summary:The conference volume deals with the scope of action and individual chances of power of women related to rulers of pre-modern times. An introduction is followed by 15 examples from the late 3rd mill. to the Early Middle Ages. The precise topics are networking at the court in Ur, ethno-archaeological and iconographical approaches to Kushite queens, symbolic resources of Argead women and women around the Diadochi, Demetrius Poliorcetes and his wives, Hellenistic queens playing major roles, the wives of rulers in Ptolemaic Egypt according to private Demotic sources, matronage amongst the notability of Miletus, matronage in Augustan aetiology and strategies of action of mythical wives of rulers, Julia Severa, Poppea, and the matronage of Jewish religion, women for women in epigraphic sources, the resources of women in the entourage of the Antonine emperors, strategies of late antique matronage, early medieval queens and empresses at Byzantium, among others
ISBN:3896467417