Publications

Collaborative Publications

• Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in a Christian Capital: Rome, 300-900 a volume of collected essays edited by Kate Cooper and Julia Hillner (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
• Early Medieval Europe 9:3 (2000), ‘The Roman Martyrs and the Politics of Memory’ a special issue edited by Kate Cooper, offers an initial overview of the Roman Martyrs Project’s work.
• AHDS Database Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Medieval Rome (deposited by Conrad Leyser)
• The Peace in the Feud: History and Anthropology 1955-2005, edited by Conrad Leyser (forthcoming)

Collaborative Articles

• Kate Cooper and Conrad Leyser, “The Gender of Grace: Impotence, Servitude, and Manliness in the Fifth-Cen Gender & History 12 (2000), 536-551. (PDF 830KB)
• Hillner, Julia and Conrad Leyser, “Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Rome, c.440-c.840.   A Database Project of the Centre for Late Antiquity, University of Manchester,” in Le Scritture dai Monasteri. Atti del IIº Seminario Internazionale di Studio ‘I Monasteri nell’Alto Medioevo’ Roma 9-10 Maggio 2002, eds Flavia De Rubeis and Walter Pohl (Roma: Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae, vol 29, 2003), 227-247. (PDF 2,319KB)
• Hillner, Julia and Conrad Leyser, JISC Inform 5 (2004), 21. (PDF 79KB)

Selected Further Publications

Kate Cooper

• The Fall of the Roman Household by Kate Cooper (Cambridge University Press, 2007).
  
• “Closely Watched Households: Visibility, exposure, and private power in th Past and Present 197 (Nov. 2007), 3-33.
• “Gender and Fall of Rome”, in Philip Rousseau, ed., A Companion to Late Antiquity (Oxford: Blackwell, 2009), 187-200. Click here.
• Kate Cooper, “Household and Empire: The Materfamilias as Miles Christi in the Anonymous Handbook for Gregoria,”in Household, Women, and Christianities, eds., Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Brepols, 2005), 91-107. (PDF 952KB)
• Kate Cooper, “The Household and the Desert: Monastic and Biological Communities in the Lives of Melania the Younger,” in Household, Women, and Christianities, eds., Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Brepols, 2005), 11-35. (PDF 1,399KB)
• Kate Cooper, “Ventriloquism and the Miraculous: Conversion, Preaching, and the Martyr Exemplum in Late Antiquity,”Studies in Church History 41 (2005), 22-45. (PDF 1,290KB)
• Kate Cooper, “Empress and Theotokos: Gender and Patronage in the Christological Controversy,” Studies in Church History 39 (2004), 39-51. (PDF 707KB)
• Kate Cooper, “Matthidia’s Wish: Division, Reunion, and the Early Christian Family in the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions” in Narrativity in Biblical and Related Texts, eds., G.J. Brooke and J.-D. Kaestli (Leuven University Press, 2000), 243-264. (PDF 1,118KB)
• Kate Cooper, “The martyr, the matrona and the bishop: the matron Lucina and the politics of martyr cult in fifth- and sixth-century Rome,” Early Medieval Europe 8 (1999), 297-317. (PDF 1,196KB)
• Kate Cooper, “Contesting the Nativity: Wives, virgins, and Pulcheria’s imitatio Mariae,” Scottish Journal of Religious Studies 19 (1998), 31-43. (PDF 770KB)
• Kate Cooper, “The Voice of the Victim: Gender, Representation and Early Christian Martyrdom,” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 80 (1998), 147-157. (PDF 743KB)
• Conrad Leyser, “Vulnerability and Power: The Early Christian Rhetoric of Masculine Authority,” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 80 (1998), 159-173. (PDF 937KB)

Dirk Rohmann

• Dirk Rohmann, Gewalt und politischer Wandel im 1. Jh. n. Chr. Münchner Studien zur Alten Welt 1 (Munich: Utz, 2006)
• Thomas Völker, Dirk Rohmann, “Praenomen Petronii. The Date and Author of the Satyricon Reconsidered,” The Classical Quarterly 61.2 (2011), 660-76
• Dirk Rohmann, “Bilder der Gewalt. Darstellung von Krieg in der frühkaiserzeitlichen Geschichtsschreibung,” Böser Krieg. Exzessive Gewalt in der antiken Kriegsführung und Strategien zu deren Vermeidung. Nummi et Litterae 5, eds. M. Linder and S. Tausend (Graz: Universitaetsverlag, 2011) 153-65
• Dirk Rohmann, “Tyrannen und Märtyrer. Seneca und das Gewaltkonzept in der Literatur des ersten Jahrhunderts n. Chr.,” Extreme Formen von Gewalt in Bild und Text des Altertums, ed. M. Zimmermann (Munich: Utz, 2009), 275-94
• Dirk Rohmann, “Vicious Virtues. The Aesthetic of Violence in Prudentius,” In Pursuit of ‘Wissenschaft’. Festschrift William Calder. Spudasmata 119, eds. S. Heilen et al. (Hildesheim: Olms, 2008), 379-91
• Dirk Rohmann, “Die Ästhetik des Blutes in berühmten römischen Sterbeszenen,” Göttinger Forum fuer Altertumswissenschaft 10 (2007), 251-7
• Dirk Rohmann, “‘Welche Art von Strafe ist das?’ –  Anmerkungen zum supplicium ‘nach Art der Vorfahren'”, in:Historia 55 (2006), 144-6
• Dirk Rohmann, “Das langsame Sterben der Veterum Cultura Deorum – Pagane Kulte bei Prudentius”, in: Hermes 131 (2003), 235-53