Julia Hillner

And @unibonn.bsky.social is one of them! Congratulations to us all!

Cover image for edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic'. Depicts detail of a gilt bronze statue of a Roman woman. Pergola, Italy. c. 70-30 BCE.

Book description: In the Roman Republic, elite women were legally permitted to control substantial assets – and many demonstrably were in direct control of their wealth. They were also the mothers, wives and daughters of the politicians who built Rome's empire and, in a time of high mortality, could find themselves running households that did not contain adult men. This volume explores the political and social consequences of elite female wealth. It combines case studies of individual women, such as Licinia, wife of C. Gracchus, Mucia Tertia, Fulvia and Octavia Minor, with broader surveys of the institutional frameworks and social conventions that constrained and enabled women's wealth and its consequences. The book contributes to the recent upsurge of interest in re-evaluating the role of women in Republican Rome and will be invaluable for scholars and students alike.

Catherine Steel and I are thrilled to announce the publication of our edited volume 'Women, Wealth and Power in the Roman Republic': www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...
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„The controversy highlights a broader tension between mainstream celebrity culture and the high arts“

I regularly go to the opera in Bonn on a *11€ ticket*. For a pop concert I’d have to pay ten times+. Celebrity culture is enriching a tiny group of people that opera is simply not.

Thank you! I promise that I will actually proof the abstract and eliminate its syntax errors 😵‍💫😎

Titel and Abstract page of "A ladies' man: Julian Augustus as son, husband, and emperor'. Abstract: This article investigates the Emperor Julian’s relations with three of his female relatives: with his mother Basilina, with the wife of his cousin Constantius II, Eusebia, and with his own wife, Helena the Younger, also the sister of Constantius II. I argue that the relationships with these women not only shaped Julian’s agency and ultimately his ability to become Roman emperor, but that he also carefully incorporated these relationships into his imperial self-image, even or particularly after their death. By casting a light especially on Julian’s mother and on his wife, widely ignored by modern scholarship on Julian, the article invites us to consider the power that flowed through ancient men’s domestic ties created by women, and on imperial men’s acute awareness of this power.

Proofs!

Soon available in open access at the Bullettin of the Institute of Classical Studies - as soon as I have sorted out image permissions with the Soprintendenza in Rome...

A group of three people in front of a white historic residence

Kicking off our project on The Nameless in History with Pia Wiegmink and @woodjamie.bsky.social in the beautiful surroundings of Schloss Herrenhausen @volkswagenstiftung.de

Caroline Goodson, actually! And she is on here @cjg70.bsky.social

Riccardo has a chapter on the medieval houses on the imperial fora in the new Brill Companion to Rome 400-1050

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Roman forum, divided into private housing. Source: Dey, Making of Medieval Rome (Studio InkLink)

The Forum of Nerva in Rome, c. 850.

Actually produced for and first published by the incomparable Riccardo Santangeli Valenzani who also (co-)excavated much of the underlying materials!

Publication – « A Companion to Rome (c. 400–c. 1050) », éd. Caroline Goodson, Julia Hillner The city of Rome had a remarkable and complex urban continuity even after antiquity and it provided a model of urban living for other cities throughout the Middle Ages. Much existing research has n…

Publication – « A Companion to Rome (c. 400–c. 1050) », éd. Caroline Goodson, Julia Hillner

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Nachwahl bei Manchester: Das ist nicht irgendeine Regierungsschlappe Ein Wahldebakel für Labour in Manchester zeigt, dass Großbritannien in einer tiefen Repräsentationskrise steckt. Es stellen sich fundamentale Fragen.

People in Manchester voted in the first green MP ever in the North of England (knowing my city, this came at no suprise to me!).

Why does @zeit.de spend the first 1 1/2 pages of a 2-page- report on this event talking almost exclusively about Reform?

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My new colleague in Bonn 👍

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More on Máirín MacCarron's and my recent chapter on social network analysis, Roman prosopography, and late Roman and early medieval sources at @ucc.ie's Department of Digital Humanities
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and with names like " "Jade, the Vine, the sassy ceiling-swinger of the Tropics House", we can rest assured that human stereotyping will never go away.

one wonders too how many plants have to die due to this energy-hungry project for visitors to enjoy "nature".

AI lets visitors to Cambridge botanic gardens chat to plants Cambridge University says its exhibition is a "playful way" to let people ask about ecology.

There are so many strange things about this initiative of anthropomorphing plants, but to me the most fascinating is the drive to give plants human names, apparently the only way to learn not about nature but "from and with it" (in reality of course we "learn" from a LLM)
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View over a pond framed by blossoms, with herron and modern buildings in background

Urban scene at nighttime, with road, cars and modern buildings

Travelling home today from amazing Japan: so grateful to my generous host Yukiko Kawamoto from Nagoya University for inviting me to discuss classics, digital humanities and LLM, Roman law, and gender, and to get to know this wonderful country (impressions from Tokyo in pics).

Web – Mise en ligne en open-access des éditions du Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (volumes antérieurs à 2010) Using current philological methods and editorial techniques, members of the commission, collaborators and scholars from various countries have been producing editions of the writings of Christian L…

Web – Mise en ligne en open-access des éditions du Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (volumes antérieurs à 2010)

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Three people in front of a screen with first slide of the talk

Poster of the talk

Continuing my journey around Japan - a huge thanks to the Kyoto University Ancient History Seminar for hosting me and my paper on late Roman emperors’ marriage strategies!

An excavation led by my wonderful colleague Sabine Feist @unibonn.bsky.social

Programme of Digital Digesta. Interpretation of Legal Codes and Data Structuring and handout of first talk

Such an honour to be at Nagoya University for this fabulous event, talking about a project I am conducting @dependencybonn.de using data from Connecting Late Antiquities

Sex and snacks, but no seat at the table: the role of women in Epstein’s sordid men’s club Files reveal a world of flattery and fratboy tones, where rich men are cultivated and women provide services

I've been so disgusted by everything that's come out about Epstein that I can only handle it in small portions, but this article is such a good survey of the times we live in. It's really worth reading www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Thanks! Same here - I just feel so worn out by this. But this is good, thanks for sharing. Just had a man explain to me how the Epstein affair "transcends...human trafficking and sexual offences", because it is about international politics, doh. Really, not making this up.

Charles West gives the Society's annual medieval lecture on European queenship - RHS On Friday 6 February the Society hosted the first lecture in its 2026 programme. Our great thanks to Professor Charles West (University of Edinburgh) who spoke on: ‘"Alike in Appearance but not in Sco...

Our great thanks to Professor Charles West for his excellent Society lecture yesterday evening: ‘”Alike in Appearance but not in Scope”: Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe’ bit.ly/4tluezd

The recording of Charles's lecture will be available shortly.
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Actually, the main news story should be how a large group of men abused women and girls over many years while everyone was looking away. Because by making this about current Uk politics, Peter Mandelson or whatever, we are still looking away. As Marina Hyde says.

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Explore Roman Bonn through the eyes of Bassiana, a free Ubian woman living near the legionary camp of Bonna.

Our new self-guided digital heritage trail is now online via the free app – with places, stories, and small challenges along the way.

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A big welcome to Anita Kporkpor Pobi, who joins the BCDSS as a Predoctoral Fellow!

We are excited to have Anita’s important perspective at our Cluster!
👉 To learn more about her work, visit: buff.ly/U8k9TAd
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