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writinghelena.bsky.social
Julia Hillner
@writinghelena.bsky.social
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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
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · Mar 18
At the Connecting Late Antiquities project we've compiled a list of digital projects on late antiquity - one step to, erm, connecting late antiquities!
Huge thanks to @bnduman.net & @laurahartmann.bsky.social

Take a look, the variety is mindblowing!

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/research/...
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 22h
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
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 22h
I'm indexing a large edited volume & finding so many instances of women indicated only as "daughter of", "and his wife" etc - a bit of research shows that often we actually know their names (yes, even for late antique/early medieval women)!
Time to repost
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The Art of Naming Women
This past Christmas something magical happened to me which put my faith back into the importance of writing History (not that I had ever lost it, but in these times, when the value of History as an…
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 3d
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
Silver bowl, silver ladle, golden hairpin, gold plated decorations of a vessel
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 3d
Continuing my quest to trace postroman connections through grave goods associated with royal wives.
Here some objects from Ostrogothic Italy found in then-Thuringia, perhaps arrived there when or after Theoderic’s niece Amalaberga married Thuringian king Hermanifrid in 507
Now in Stadtmuseum Erfurt
A selection of grave goods, including silver, gold and garnet brooches A bird shaped golden and garnet brooch
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 5d
📢 Call for Applications!
The BCDSS is inviting applications for the Heinz Heinen Fellowship Program 2026/2027.

📅 Apply by Jan 10, 2026
📍 Start date: from Oct 1, 2026
👉 Full details here: buff.ly/8aH1Fy0

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A poster calling for application for Heinz Heinen Fellowships for the next academic year 2026/2027 -The deadline is on January 10, 2026
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 5d
Not sure about the link I inserted here 🤨
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 5d
I didn’t meet her many times, but the first one was after I had just come to the UK aged 29. We talked about hair! My hair, her grandchild‘s (or niece’s?) hair, how to care for long hair. Being used to stuffy male German profs, I was enthralled. It was a revelation!
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British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social · 5d
📣 BSR / Early Medieval Europe Fellowship – Call for Applications!

Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in early medieval European history?
Apply now!

⏳ Deadline: 30 January 2026
More info here: bsr.ac.uk/awards-resid...
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 6d
Also featuring @kelseyshawn.bsky.social from whom I learned so much!
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 6d
📢 Congratulations to Julia Hillner for her contribution to an article in SPIEGEL Geschichte on slavery & prostitution in the Roman Empire!

(Article in German, subscriber access only)

🔗To the Article: buff.ly/DGw3EZDin: Spiegel GESCHICHTE 5/25 'Roms Kampf um German

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 7d
More opportunities @dependencybonn.de !

We are also looking for research fellows to join us in 2026-7, with projects that develop and critically reflect on specific methodological approaches to the study of strong asymmetrical dependencies, to help us develop our newly minted Method Lab.
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Jenny Leetsch @jennyleetsch.bsky.social · 7d
In addition, the call for new Heinz Heinen fellows has just gone live: www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/fellowshi... (for doctoral, junior postdoc, senior postdoc, and alternative knowledge producer positions)
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 7d
The Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies is hiring three postdoctoral researchers.

We investigate the causes and mechanisms that contribute to the persistence of strong asymmetrical dependencies across historical and contemporary contexts.

Pre-modern perspectives are very welcome!
3 Postdoctoral Positions (100%, TV-L E-13, for 3 years)
full-time, Temporary, EG 13, Reference number: 2025/152
www.uni-bonn.de
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 10d
You rock! Congratulations!!
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Aleksander Paradziński @akjp89.bsky.social · 11d
We had an entire day of stimulating discussions yesterday at the 'Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Antiquity' workshop organised by Grace Stafford and yours truly. We are grateful to @dependencybonn.de for providing funding and assistance for this event.
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12d
"Elite Women and Systems of Dependency in Late Antiquity" workshop @dependencybonn.de. Welcome by @akjp89.bsky.social and Grace Stafford.
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Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies @dependencybonn.de · 11d
📖Congratulations to Julia Winnebeck and Henriette von Harnier on their new publication in the Historisches Jahrbuch, representing the first edition and translation of an incomplete ninth-century penitential!

For more: buff.ly/hhvCMTn

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A poster withg a book cover "Historiches Jahrbuch" where Julia Winnebeck and Henriette von Harnier published a study that presents the first edition and translation of the incomplete Paenitentiale Dusseldorpiense, preserved in a ninth-century manuscript in Düsseldorf, offering fresh insights into the history of penance and early medieval history
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 12d
Today the mail delivered this amazing book about Helena that its author, Jonathan Hibbs, kindly sent me. Published in 2005 it is partly biography, partly travelogue and was sadly unbeknown to me until now.
Cover of Jonathan Hibbs, The first tourist, Chippenham 2005. cover image of a silver reliquary in the shape of a female head, in silhouette, from Sant‘Elena, Venice
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 13d
We are delighted to announce that Gender & History now has a new home at the University of Edinburgh. With thanks to the Sheffield team who did a stellar job for the last five years. hca.ed.ac.uk/gender-histo...
#Skystorians #GenderHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
'Gender & History' moves to Edinburgh | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
The School is very excited to announce that the leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ has moved to the University of Edinburgh.
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 12d
Congratulations and good luck to the new editorial team of @genderandhistory.bsky.social! It's been an honour editing the journal with my Sheffield colleagues and pals for the last five years, and I am looking forward to seeing it thrive at Edinburgh!
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HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social · 12d
The leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ (@genderandhistory.bsky.social) has moved to the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, edin.ac/46z9jy5

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Gender
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 12d
*Lisa Hellman [think before typing dear @writinghelena.bsky.social ]
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 12d
*colleague
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 12d
Congratulations to Emma, my wonderful colleage @dependencybonn.de !
The full @genderandhistory.bsky.social SI on Gender & Segregation will be published later this year, with 13 terrific articles and a substantial introduction by Lisa Hellmann, @djrgrey.bsky.social, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and myself.
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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 13d
Very excited latest 📄 in special issue
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ed. by @writinghelena.bsky.social l; Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and me is out, and #openaccess! 🌟 Emma Kalb investigates "A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi" doi.org/10.1111/1468...
A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi
This article examines the late Mughal period, a time of dramatic political reconfiguration, to trace the relevance of practices of elite female seclusion, and particularly of the complex space of the...
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 18d
My institution, the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, is currently advertising five nine-month fellowships to support the writing of a PhD funding proposal. Deadline 1 October.

Any questions, do get in touch (my email is on my webpage :)

www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/images/about...
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 19d
Wie schade, dass wir uns verpasst haben! Aber hoffentlich bis bald!
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 21d
Now at the round table on how we can and should study strong asymmetrical dependency in past and present organised by our very own @dependencybonn.de, in the amazing surroundings of Bonn’s Schlosskirche where Beethoven learned his trade.
An audience listening to a round table sitting in a baroque church decorated in white and yellow
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