Julia Hillner
@writinghelena.bsky.social
Writing about imperial women to understand late antiquity:
history - ideology - dynasty - violence - agency - memory
Also working on: crime, punishment, prosopography, digital humanities, and the city of Rome
@dependencybonn.de
history - ideology - dynasty - violence - agency - memory
Also working on: crime, punishment, prosopography, digital humanities, and the city of Rome
@dependencybonn.de
Looking forward to seeing you...if you make it :)
November 4, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Looking forward to seeing you...if you make it :)
It reconstructs how creeds, and the two main Christian creeds in particular , the apostolic and the nicene came into being, so traces the story from early christianity up to 16th century Ethiopia! Eusebius is in it, but mainly as one of the many actors who were involved in the crafting these texts
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It reconstructs how creeds, and the two main Christian creeds in particular , the apostolic and the nicene came into being, so traces the story from early christianity up to 16th century Ethiopia! Eusebius is in it, but mainly as one of the many actors who were involved in the crafting these texts
congratulations!!!! 🍾🍾🍾
October 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
congratulations!!!! 🍾🍾🍾
Congratulations 🥳
October 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Congratulations 🥳
I gave it to my child to read when they were applying to university
October 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I gave it to my child to read when they were applying to university
This here is amazing. Granted, not medieval (though one case study is St Peter at the Vatican ) but so so good on the challenges of interdisciplinary work and extremely well written press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Artifact and Artifice
Is it possible to trace the footprints of the historical Sokrates in Athens? Was there really an individual named Romulus, and if so, when did he found Rome? Is the tomb beneath the high altar of St. ...
press.uchicago.edu
October 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This here is amazing. Granted, not medieval (though one case study is St Peter at the Vatican ) but so so good on the challenges of interdisciplinary work and extremely well written press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Yeah perhaps not consciously. But limiting resources for specific groups of people has this effect. I can testify, the patriarchy works like this :)
October 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Yeah perhaps not consciously. But limiting resources for specific groups of people has this effect. I can testify, the patriarchy works like this :)
Actually isn’t this exactly the intention of the powers they are decrying: creating divisions so we have a go at each other. Walking into a trap, every time.
October 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Actually isn’t this exactly the intention of the powers they are decrying: creating divisions so we have a go at each other. Walking into a trap, every time.
I did not see the previous post but I was surprised and taken aback already by this one, including by the large and positive feedback it received, some straight ad hominem. In my view, social media is not the place to attack colleagues, whatever scientific, political or personal opinions we hold.
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I did not see the previous post but I was surprised and taken aback already by this one, including by the large and positive feedback it received, some straight ad hominem. In my view, social media is not the place to attack colleagues, whatever scientific, political or personal opinions we hold.
in general though, even my index is majority male - we just haven't mastered yet how to make the nameless findable! I stubbornly list nameless daughters, wives etc as "nameless daughter of...", but it's rather unsatisfactory
October 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
in general though, even my index is majority male - we just haven't mastered yet how to make the nameless findable! I stubbornly list nameless daughters, wives etc as "nameless daughter of...", but it's rather unsatisfactory
And here some objects from a probably royal Thuringian female chariot burial that has been associated with Radegund’s mum, wife of Bertachar.
Not sure these are originals though as they seem very shiny.
Also from Stadtmuseum Erfurt
Not sure these are originals though as they seem very shiny.
Also from Stadtmuseum Erfurt
October 4, 2025 at 1:34 PM
And here some objects from a probably royal Thuringian female chariot burial that has been associated with Radegund’s mum, wife of Bertachar.
Not sure these are originals though as they seem very shiny.
Also from Stadtmuseum Erfurt
Not sure these are originals though as they seem very shiny.
Also from Stadtmuseum Erfurt