The privileges and perils of queenship in late Antiquity

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The privileges and perils of queenship in late Antiquity

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What was it like to be a queen in the Roman, Byzantine and Medieval period? In this episode we discuss how elite women experienced peril alongside privilege. Historian of late Antiquity, Dr. Meaghan McEvoy, recounts tales of women entangled in political jockeying, unhappy marriages and risky reproduction. Did the rise of Christianity provide queens and their daughters preferable alternatives? How can we reconceive contemporary notions of female leadership through its longer history?

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