Matronage
Subtitle: Handlungsstrategien und soziale Netzwerke antiker Herrscherfrauen : Beiträge eines Kolloquiums an der Universität Osnabrück vom 22. bis 24. März 2012
By: Christiane Kunst (Hrsg.) unter Mitarbeit von Anja Schulz
Series: Osnabrücker Forschungen zu Altertum und Antike-Rezeption -- Band 20; Osnabrücker Forschungen zu Altertum und Antike-Rezeption -- Bd. 20.
Publisher: VML Verlag Marie Leidorf GMbH
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Rahden/Westfalen
Language: ger
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9783896467416
Subjects: Women in public life; Congresses; Queens; Empresses; History; Political activity; Women
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.