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Ausgabe:

Dezember/2022

Spalte:

1179–1180

Kategorie:

Altertumswissenschaft

Autor/Hrsg.:

Mowat, Chris

Titel/Untertitel:

Engendering the Future. Divination and the Construction of Gender in the Late Roman Republic.

Verlag:

Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2021. 201 S. m. 2 Tab. = Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 75. Geb. EUR 49,00. ISBN 9783515129343.

Rezensent:

Blossom Stefaniw

This slightly revised dissertation was submitted at Newcastle University in 2018. Chris Mowat has since taught in the Department of History at the University of Sheffield and continues to demonstrate ethical and scholarly concern with divergent gender identities.

There is some precedent for connecting gender, performativity and identity in the context of ritual expertise in antiquity. This includes, among the most recent publications noted in the bibliography, Heidi Wendt, At the Temple Gates: The Religion of Freelance Experts in the Roman Empire (Oxford, Oxford University Press: 2016) and Jason König and Greg Woolf, Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2017). Scholarly interest in gender and ritual expertise is also ...


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