<i>Conubium cum uxoribus</i>: wives and children in the Roman military diplomas

Greene, Elizabeth M.

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“…Archaeological evidence for families, including wives and children of both officers and lower ranking soldiers in frontier communities has previously been discussed in detail by authors such as Van Driel-Murray (1995;1997), Allason-Jones (1999b), Allison (2011), Greene (2013;2015a;2015b) and many others. Amongst other finds, footwear, writing tablets, and military diplomas have been used to illustrate the presence of women within frontier communities.…”

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The Construction, Use, and Discard of Female Identities: Interpreting Spindle Whorls at Vindolanda and Corbridge

Alberti

2018

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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Spindle whorls are one of the most durable traces of the textile craft in the archaeological record. They can be found in copious quantities and diverse types in forts and extramural settlements on the Romano British northern frontier. The connection between spinning tools and female identity, although widely recognised and studied in the burial record, has seldom prompted in-depth observation of whorls and their characteristics, either individually or as assemblages, along the frontiers of the Empire. The following paper will explore how shape, size, decoration, and use wear marks on spindle whorls from Vindolanda and Corbridge can reveal insights into the practice of spinning. By analysing the distribution and physical properties of whorls in the northwestern quadrant of Vindolanda, an attempt will also be made to connect the spinning practice to the construction and performance of female identity.

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The Construction, Use, and Discard of Female Identities: Interpreting Spindle Whorls at Vindolanda and Corbridge

Alberti

2018

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal

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“…The data are available online as Supplementary Appendix 1. For more general discussion of family relations as revealed by the diplomas, see Greene 2015 and Juntunen 2018.…”

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The Army and the Spread of Roman Citizenship

Lavan

2019

J. Rom. Stud.

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This paper draws on recent advances in our knowledge (much of it owed to the proliferation of military diplomas) and a new analytical method to quantify the number of soldiers and their children who received Roman citizenship between 14 and 212 c.e. Although significant uncertainties remain, these can be quantified and turn out to be small relative to the overall scale of enfranchisement. The paper begins by reviewing what is known about grants of citizenship to soldiers, with particular attention to the remaining uncertainties, before presenting a quantitative model of the phenomenon. The total number of beneficiaries was somewhere in the region 0.9–1.6 million — significantly lower than previous estimates have suggested. It also emerges that the rate of enfranchisement varied substantially over time, in line with significant changes in manpower, length of service (and hence the number of recruits and discharged veterans) and the rate of family formation among soldiers. The Supplementary Material available online (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075435819000662) contains a database of military diplomas (Supplementary Appendix 1), a mathematical model of enfranchisement implemented in MS Excel (Supplementary Appendix 2), a description of the model (Supplementary Appendix 3A) and a derivation of the model of attrition across service cohorts in Fig. 6 (Supplementary Appendix 3B).

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“…Until 197 C.E., Roman soldiers were not legally allowed to marry until their military service was finished. However, informal marriages were tolerated by military leadership before the law changed (Holder 1982, 50-4;Greene 2015). This precarious, extralegal position may have contributed to the status of soldiers' wives as outsiders.…”

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Gendered Healing Votives in Roman Gaul: Representing the Body in a Colonial Context

Wigodner

2019

American Journal of Archaeology

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would like to thank Emma Blake, whose support and dedication made this study possible. I am also grateful to Alison Futrell and Lars Fogelin for their invaluable guidance. Preliminary results of this research were presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (Vancouver 2017), and a related study of the same material was presented at the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (Edinburgh 2018). The thoughtful comments from these audiences usefully shaped my thinking. Lastly, I would like to thank Editor-in-Chief Jane B. Carter and the anonymous reviewers for the AJA for providing insightful critiques that greatly improved this paper. Any remaining oversights are my own. 2 This is evident in religious syncretism, in which Roman gods married indigenous goddesses (see, e.g., Green 1995a, 124-35). The gendered nature of Roman imperial ideology was most graphically represented in art and literature depicting Roman conquest as rape

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Conubium cum uxoribus: wives and children in the Roman military diplomas

Cited by 26 publications

References 10 publications

The Construction, Use, and Discard of Female Identities: Interpreting Spindle Whorls at Vindolanda and Corbridge

The Construction, Use, and Discard of Female Identities: Interpreting Spindle Whorls at Vindolanda and Corbridge

The Army and the Spread of Roman Citizenship

Gendered Healing Votives in Roman Gaul: Representing the Body in a Colonial Context

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