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9781805965992: Empresses-in-Waiting: Female Power and Performance at the Late Roman Court
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ISBN 10 : 1805965999 ISBN 13 : 9781805965992
Editeur : Liverpool University Press, 2026

Synopsis

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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À propos des auteurs

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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Éditeur
Liverpool University Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1805965999
ISBN 13 
9781805965992
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
352
Éditeur
Rollinger Christian, Viermann Nadine
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