Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome
Author:   Angela Hug
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   45
ISBN:  

9789004540774


Pages:   314
Publication Date:   18 May 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Fertility, Ideology, and the Cultural Politics of Reproduction at Rome


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Roman 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.

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Author:   Angela Hug
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   45
Weight:   0.673kg
ISBN:  

9789004540774


ISBN 10:   9004540776
Pages:   314
Publication Date:   18 May 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations and Conventions Introduction 1 The Place of Marriage and Children in Roman Society 2 Gendering Fecunditas 3 Exploiting Fecunditas 4 Lacking Fecunditas: Overcoming Involuntary Childlessness 5 Fecunditas and the State 6 Fecunditas and the Imperial Family Conclusion Appendix: Latin Inscriptions Commemorating Women Who Likely Died in Childbirth or While Pregnant Bibliography Index of Sources General Index

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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).

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