Fertility, ideology, and the cultural politics of reproduction at Rome:

"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 inf...

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1. Verfasser: Hug, Angela 1979- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2023]
Schriftenreihe:Impact of empire volume 45
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Zusammenfassung:"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"--
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 314 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9789004540781
DOI:10.1163/9789004540781

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