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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, imprisonment, prosopography, digital humanities, and 👆 the city of Rome
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Julia Hillner is Professor for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the University of Bonn. She was previously Professor of Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. She is an expert on late antiquity, applying digital methods of social network analysis to large data sets drawn from a wide variety of late antique and early medieval sources. .. more

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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/...
Related Digital Projects
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 16h
Thank you!

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 17h
For real!
Female torso holding the two volumes of A Companion to Rome, c. 400-1050

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 2d
And thank you and Cinnamon for your support! Looking forward to your thoughts!

Reposted by Charles West, Andrew Jacobs

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 2d
The Brill Companion to Rome, c. 400- c. 1050, co-edited by Caroline Goodson and myself, will be published on 22 January (online) and on 19 February (print).

There will be a hybrid book launch on the eve of the online publication.

More info here
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www.uni-erfurt.de/fileadmin/Bi...
www.uni-erfurt.de

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 3d
More on Roman Bonn here www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...
The World of Roman Bonn
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 3d
Apparently the roof tiles had been left there after the 2000 anniversary of Bonn (in 1989). To this day, I have no clue what role they had played in this anniversary. NB the markings possibly by studs in the soles of Roman sandals, three altogether. In Bonn the tiles would have been made by soldiers

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 3d
I am very late to this, but here goes: as a PhD student I worked in Bonn city archives. Looking for something in the magazines with my boss, we entered a room stacked full of ancient Roman roof tiles. My boss said I could take one. It's been with me ever since, featuring often in my teaching. 1/
Roman roof tile, with round markings which may the imprints of the studs in the soles of Roman sandals

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 7d
Congratulations! I definitively must get my hands on the first one!

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 7d
2026 started splendidly for our 'Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World' series with these two mighty fine new tomes. Congratulations to the editors and all authors involved!

Reposted by Charles West, Julia Hillner

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 8d
Our first RHS lecture of 2026 is '"Alike in Appearance but not in Scope": Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe', with Prof Charles West (Edinburgh) bit.ly/49GlmMR

6pm, Friday 6 February. In-person booking is now full but registration to attend this event online remains open #Skystorians
'Queens and the Making of Medieval Europe': RHS Lecture, online
Royal Historical Society Lecture, 6 February 2026
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 13d
Happy new year to you too!

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 24d
Thank you - we are very excited! Happy holidays to you and yours!

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 24d
Flashback to 2018 when you could do this kind of things on Twitter 😪, but fast forward to 2026 when we are starting a whole new research project on the topic
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...
Third-Party-Funding by VolkswagenStiftung for "The Nameless in History"
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de

Reposted by Andrew Jacobs

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 24d
It's the run-up to Christmas and as every year I'm reposting my own Xmas miracle story - of the Apollo 8 mission that set off on 21 Dec 1968, their iconic reading from Genesis on Christmas Eve, & how we found the name of the woman who had this genius idea.
writinghelena.wordpress.com/2019/01/08/t...
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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Reposted by Andrew Jacobs, Pauline Stafford, Julia Hillner

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Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 25d
Soon to appear, Eric Fournier and Maijastina Kahlos (eds.), Women and Gender in the Post-Roman Kingdoms, see www.brepols.net/products/IS-... and www.academia.edu/145456266/Wo... (incl. my paper on "Secular Women in the Lombard Kingdom“).

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 27d
Yes that's true - to be honest, this particular project is probably looking to recruit internationally.

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 27d
I know a few medievalists coming from state schools who have acquired these kinds of languages alongside MA and PhD. You clue up pretty quickly to the fact that you need them.

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 27d
And another, less relaxed one, also Antikensammlung Dresden

Both sculptures probably originate from a funerary context.
Marble bust of a little girl, c. 180CE Marble bust of a little girl, seen from the left, with chignon. C. 180CE

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 27d
A very cute little Roman, in the Antikensammlung in Dresden
Marble statue of a little girl sitting on the floor, c 160-70CE, seen from the left Marble statue of a little girl sitting on the floor, c 160-70CE, seen from the right Marble statue of a little girl sitting on the floor, c 160-70CE, seem from the front Marble statue of a little girl sitting on the floor, c 160-70CE, seen from behind

Reposted by Katie Barclay, Lesley A. Hall, Andrew Jacobs , and 2 more

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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 27d
Our Special Issue @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now out!! Many congrats and thanks to stellar co-editors @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman & Rachel Jean-Baptiste, and to all our fabulous authors. Fab seeing all 140,000 words brought together! 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
Special Issue: Gender and Segregation: Gender & History: Vol 37, No 3
Gender & History is a global gender studies journal publishing research on femininity, masculinity and gender across eras and territories.
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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · 29d
Huge congratulations! 👏

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Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social · 29d
Rome will open two new Metro C subway stations today - at the Colosseum and Porta Metronia - showcasing the archaeological finds unearthed during construction works.
Rome opens two new metro stations at Colosseum and Porta Metronia
Rome's Metro C subway station at the Colosseum will be inaugurated on 8 December, a national holiday in Italy, the city's mayor Roberto Gualtieri announced.
www.wantedinrome.com

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · Dec 15
Thank you! Would be great to compare notes!

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · Dec 15
Our project is very transdisciplinary (late antique and modern; as well as history and literary studies). We are trying to find out how we can bring together different ways of thinking about namelessness, especially in slavery studies.

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · Dec 15
Thank you for sharing the info about this project, which I did not know about.

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · Dec 15
Thank you Aleksander!

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · Dec 15
Vielen Dank!

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · Dec 15
Vielen Dank! :)

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · Dec 15
Thank you!

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Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social · Dec 15
More info here www.dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/outreach/...
Third-Party-Funding by VolkswagenStiftung for "The Nameless in History"
www.dependency.uni-bonn.de