Frauen in der römischen Geschichte. - SCHULLER, W.,
KORTE INHOUD
?Like his book on Greek women, the new volume is a factual, well-written survey. In seven chapters, (?) Ach. manages to give a chronological overview of women in the middle Republic, the late Republic, the Principate, and late antiquity. In addition, separate chapters are devoted to the position of women in Roman law, women in Pompeii, Ostia and Egypt; and Christian women. Since J.P.V.D. Balsdon?s ?Roman Women? (1962) is once again in print, comparisons between the two books will be instructive. Both books were written to appeal to the general cultivated public,. (?) Both Sch. and Balsdon are primarily interested in the public sphere, not in women?s history, but in women in history. Balsdon, of course, wrote before the development of women?s history as a subfield of the ?new social history?. Sch., in contrast, cites with approval many publications on Roman women by feminist scholars and in his conclusion he does offer a brief discussion of women?s status, but like Balsdon he writes traditional ?great-women hi...
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München / Zürich, 1992. 176p. Paperback. Name and date on half title. Series: Piper. [Antiquarian] [Auteur: SCHULLER, W.,] [Uitgever: Piper] [Jaar: 1992] [Titel: Frauen in der römischen Geschichte.]
