Emily A Hemelrijk
Biographic Data
| ID | 5632784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily A Hemelrijk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hemelrijk |
| SIGNATURE | HEMELRIJK E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Matronal virtues, professional pride and divine associations. Funerary commemoration of freedwomen in Roman Italy
In the funerary culture of Roman Italy between the late first century BCE and the late second century CE tombs set up by and for freed people, both men and women, predominated. This article looks at these monuments from the perspective of freedwomen. It surveys three patterns of commemoration of freedwomen: their emulation of freeborn (elite) values, the expression of professional pride and their posthumous representation in the guise of deities.…
Op weg naar vrijheid en burgerschap
In Rome, Ostia, and other cities of Italy in the imperial period the over-whelming majority of the grave monuments were set up by freed people. Since this predominance does not reflect demographic realities, we may infer that freedmen and freedwomen had strong incentives to set up funerary monuments. This article looks at their tombs from the perspective of freedwomen. How were they portrayed in the reliefs and inscriptions on their tombs? It wil…
Women and Society in the Roman World
By their social and material context as markers of graves, dedications and public signs of honour, inscriptions offer a distinct perspective on the social lives, occupations, family belonging, mobility, ethnicity, religious affiliations, public honour and legal status of Roman women ranging from slaves and freedwomen to women of the elite and the imperial family, both in Rome and in Italian and provincial towns. They thus shed light on women who …
Hidden Lives, Public Personae
"By its in-depth discussion of women's civic roles in the towns outside Rome, this study offers a compelling new vision of Roman women's integration into their communities and contributes to a more comprehensive view of civic life under the Roman Empire"-- "Roman cities have rarely been studied from the perspective of women, and studies of Roman women mainly focus on the city of Rome. Studying the civic participation of women in the towns of Ital…
Conclusion
The conclusion evaluates women's position in urban society of the Roman West. Attention is paid to the dichotomy between the city of Rome and other cities of Italy and the western provinces, between the moralizing literary sources and inscriptions, between the Republic and the imperial period, and to the mutual influence between wealthy women of high-ranking families of Italy and the women of the imperial family. Though women's civic contribution…
A World Full of Cities
This chapter discusses women’s social and legal position within Roman cities and the possible influence of Romanization on their integration into civic life. Further, it discusses the main profits and pitfalls of the epigraphic evidence and the blurred distinction between public and private in Roman society. Special attention is paid to the tension between gender and social status, the definition of the Roman elite as a political order (the senat…
Roman Citizenship and the Integration of Women into the Local Towns of the Latin West
This chapter sheds some light on women's integration (or lack of integration) into civic life by looking at Romanization and the spread of Roman citizenship. The chapter first briefly discusses women's adoption of Roman culture, particularly of Roman dress, customs and values. After that, it turns to their participation in civic life, paying special attention to activities that were typical for Graeco-Roman towns, such as civic munificence, pries…
Maternal Megalomania
Reviewed by: Maternal Megalomania: Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood by Julie Langford Emily Hemelrijk Julie Langford. Maternal Megalomania: Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii, 203. $55.00. ISBN 978–1-4214–0847–7. Maternal Megalomania deals with the images of Julia Domna, the wife of the emperor Septimius Severus, in the ancient sources, in particular wi…
Fictive Motherhood and Female Authority in Roman Cities
This paper discusses the meaning and function of female kinship titles in the Latin West, focusing on the title of mother of a city or a collegium, on the basis of a small corpus of Latin inscriptions recording mothers of cities and collegia in the cities of – mainly central – Italy and a few cities in the Balkan and Danubian regions in the second and third centuries AD. It is argued that the title of mater implies a lasting and hierarchical rela…
Women And Sacrifice In The Roman Empire
Women in the Graeco-Roman world were formally excluded from political and military functions and responsibilities, but their relation to the third main area of ancient society, religion, was ambiguous. Here, they were both included and excluded: included in some cults and rituals, excluded from others, privileged in few. This chapter deals with one aspect only: the participation of women in sacrifice, especially blood sacrifice. It analyzes two q…
Imperial Priestesses, a Preliminary Survey
Priestesses of the Imperial Cult in the Latin West
Poursuivant la recherche inaugurée par l'article sur les « prêtresses du culte impérial en Italie et les provinces occidentales de l'Empire romain : titres et fonction » publié dans L'Antiquité Classique 74 (2005), p. 137-170, cette étude examine les relations qui existaient entre la prêtrise du culte impérial, les bienfaits consentis par les prêtresses et les honneurs publics qui leur étaient conférés dans les cités d'Italie et dans les province…
Priestesses of the Imperial Cult in the Latin West
Prêtresses du culte impérial en Italie et les provinces occidentales de l'Empire romain : titres et fonction. Sur la base d'un corpus de 258 inscriptions des prêtresses du culte impérial en Italie et les provinces occidentales de l'Empire romain du Ier au IIIe siècle ap. J.-C, cet article examine les titres des prêtresses du culte impérial et la nature de leur prêtrise. Sont tout spécialement étudiés l'usage de deux titres différents (flaminica e…
Masculinity and femininity in the Laudatio Turiae
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Priestesses of the Imperial Cult in the Latin West
Poursuivant la recherche inaugurée par l'article sur les « prêtresses du culte impérial en Italie et les provinces occidentales de l'Empire romain : titres et fonction » publié dans L'Antiquité Classique 74 (2005), p. 137-170, cette étude examine les relations qui existaient entre la prêtrise du culte impérial, les bienfaits consentis par les prêtresses et les honneurs publics qui leur étaient conférés dans les cités d'Italie et dans les province…
Fictive Motherhood and Female Authority in Roman Cities
This paper discusses the meaning and function of female kinship titles in the Latin West, focusing on the title of mother of a city or a collegium, on the basis of a small corpus of Latin inscriptions recording mothers of cities and collegia in the cities of – mainly central – Italy and a few cities in the Balkan and Danubian regions in the second and third centuries AD. It is argued that the title of mater implies a lasting and hierarchical rela…
Masculinity and femininity in the Laudatio Turiae
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Priestesses of the Imperial Cult in the Latin West
Prêtresses du culte impérial en Italie et les provinces occidentales de l'Empire romain : titres et fonction. Sur la base d'un corpus de 258 inscriptions des prêtresses du culte impérial en Italie et les provinces occidentales de l'Empire romain du Ier au IIIe siècle ap. J.-C, cet article examine les titres des prêtresses du culte impérial et la nature de leur prêtrise. Sont tout spécialement étudiés l'usage de deux titres différents (flaminica e…
Masculinity and femininity in the Laudatio Turiae
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Priestesses of the Imperial Cult in the Latin West
Prêtresses du culte impérial en Italie et les provinces occidentales de l'Empire romain : titres et fonction. Sur la base d'un corpus de 258 inscriptions des prêtresses du culte impérial en Italie et les provinces occidentales de l'Empire romain du Ier au IIIe siècle ap. J.-C, cet article examine les titres des prêtresses du culte impérial et la nature de leur prêtrise. Sont tout spécialement étudiés l'usage de deux titres différents (flaminica e…
Imperial Priestesses, a Preliminary Survey
Priestesses of the Imperial Cult in the Latin West
Poursuivant la recherche inaugurée par l'article sur les « prêtresses du culte impérial en Italie et les provinces occidentales de l'Empire romain : titres et fonction » publié dans L'Antiquité Classique 74 (2005), p. 137-170, cette étude examine les relations qui existaient entre la prêtrise du culte impérial, les bienfaits consentis par les prêtresses et les honneurs publics qui leur étaient conférés dans les cités d'Italie et dans les province…
Women And Sacrifice In The Roman Empire
Women in the Graeco-Roman world were formally excluded from political and military functions and responsibilities, but their relation to the third main area of ancient society, religion, was ambiguous. Here, they were both included and excluded: included in some cults and rituals, excluded from others, privileged in few. This chapter deals with one aspect only: the participation of women in sacrifice, especially blood sacrifice. It analyzes two q…
Fictive Motherhood and Female Authority in Roman Cities
This paper discusses the meaning and function of female kinship titles in the Latin West, focusing on the title of mother of a city or a collegium, on the basis of a small corpus of Latin inscriptions recording mothers of cities and collegia in the cities of – mainly central – Italy and a few cities in the Balkan and Danubian regions in the second and third centuries AD. It is argued that the title of mater implies a lasting and hierarchical rela…
Roman Citizenship and the Integration of Women into the Local Towns of the Latin West
This chapter sheds some light on women's integration (or lack of integration) into civic life by looking at Romanization and the spread of Roman citizenship. The chapter first briefly discusses women's adoption of Roman culture, particularly of Roman dress, customs and values. After that, it turns to their participation in civic life, paying special attention to activities that were typical for Graeco-Roman towns, such as civic munificence, pries…
Maternal Megalomania
Reviewed by: Maternal Megalomania: Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood by Julie Langford Emily Hemelrijk Julie Langford. Maternal Megalomania: Julia Domna and the Imperial Politics of Motherhood. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. Pp. xiii, 203. $55.00. ISBN 978–1-4214–0847–7. Maternal Megalomania deals with the images of Julia Domna, the wife of the emperor Septimius Severus, in the ancient sources, in particular wi…
Hidden Lives, Public Personae
"By its in-depth discussion of women's civic roles in the towns outside Rome, this study offers a compelling new vision of Roman women's integration into their communities and contributes to a more comprehensive view of civic life under the Roman Empire"-- "Roman cities have rarely been studied from the perspective of women, and studies of Roman women mainly focus on the city of Rome. Studying the civic participation of women in the towns of Ital…
Conclusion
The conclusion evaluates women's position in urban society of the Roman West. Attention is paid to the dichotomy between the city of Rome and other cities of Italy and the western provinces, between the moralizing literary sources and inscriptions, between the Republic and the imperial period, and to the mutual influence between wealthy women of high-ranking families of Italy and the women of the imperial family. Though women's civic contribution…
A World Full of Cities
This chapter discusses women’s social and legal position within Roman cities and the possible influence of Romanization on their integration into civic life. Further, it discusses the main profits and pitfalls of the epigraphic evidence and the blurred distinction between public and private in Roman society. Special attention is paid to the tension between gender and social status, the definition of the Roman elite as a political order (the senat…
Op weg naar vrijheid en burgerschap
In Rome, Ostia, and other cities of Italy in the imperial period the over-whelming majority of the grave monuments were set up by freed people. Since this predominance does not reflect demographic realities, we may infer that freedmen and freedwomen had strong incentives to set up funerary monuments. This article looks at their tombs from the perspective of freedwomen. How were they portrayed in the reliefs and inscriptions on their tombs? It wil…
Women and Society in the Roman World
By their social and material context as markers of graves, dedications and public signs of honour, inscriptions offer a distinct perspective on the social lives, occupations, family belonging, mobility, ethnicity, religious affiliations, public honour and legal status of Roman women ranging from slaves and freedwomen to women of the elite and the imperial family, both in Rome and in Italian and provincial towns. They thus shed light on women who …
Matronal virtues, professional pride and divine associations. Funerary commemoration of freedwomen in Roman Italy
In the funerary culture of Roman Italy between the late first century BCE and the late second century CE tombs set up by and for freed people, both men and women, predominated. This article looks at these monuments from the perspective of freedwomen. It surveys three patterns of commemoration of freedwomen: their emulation of freeborn (elite) values, the expression of professional pride and their posthumous representation in the guise of deities.…
Classical Antiquity Studies (11 works) · History (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works)