Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

Winner of the 2024 Outstanding Academic Titles award in Choice, a publishing unit of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL)Winner of the 2024 Mark Golden Book PrizeRoman women bore children not just for their husbands, but for the Roman state. This book is the first comprehensive study of the importance of fecunditas (human fertility) in Roman society, c. 100 BC - AD 300. Its focus is the cultural impact of fecunditas, from gendered assumptions about infertility, to the social capital children brought to a marriage, to the emperors’ exploitation of fecunditas to build and preserve dynasties. Using a rich range of source material - literary, juristic, epigraphic, numismatic - never before collected, it explores how the Romans shaped fecunditas into an essential female virtue.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-18
Mått:155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:673 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Impact of Empire
Antal sidor:314
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004540774

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Mer om författaren

Angela Hug, Ph.D. (2014), York University (Toronto), teaches at that university in the Departments of History and Humanities, and at Glendon College. She is the co-editor of The Roman Emperor and His Court (Cambridge, 2022).

Innehållsförteckning

AcknowledgementsList of Figures and TablesAbbreviations and ConventionsIntroduction1 The Place of Marriage and Children in Roman Society2 Gendering Fecunditas3 Exploiting Fecunditas4 Lacking Fecunditas: Overcoming Involuntary Childlessness5 Fecunditas and the State6 Fecunditas and the Imperial FamilyConclusionAppendix: Latin Inscriptions Commemorating Women Who Likely Died in Childbirth or While PregnantBibliographyIndex of SourcesGeneral Index