Women Classical Scholars : unsealing the fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 29 - Classics
- Output identifier
- 103310526
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780191792571
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This volume represents the culmination of a research interest on which Hall embarked in 1990 when giving a paper on Early Modern female classicists to a seminar at Oxford University. Despite a tiny handful of biographies of individual women classicists of the past (notably Jane E. Harrison), there has never before been a study of classical foremothers that is international in scope and includes discussions and comparisons of women scholars working in and across numerous national classical traditions. Over the next twenty years Hall contacted and met experts working on female classicists in Russia, Portugal, France, the USA, Canada, Ireland, Denmark, Italy, Germany and elsewhere, and encouraged her former PhD student Rosie Wyles to embark on a post-doctoral research project, which was funded by the Leverhulme Trust, on the exceptional figure of Madame Anne Dacier. With Dr Wyles she convened a fully funded conference in 2013 at Notre Dame University’s London premises. Hall was responsible for the first draft of the substantial introduction to the volume (28 pages), which sets out the methodological issues and includes an appendix suggesting further fruitful candidates for research in every continent of the world. Hall also contributed a 29-page article on English women translators in the 17th and 18th centuries which required considerable research in archives at Nottingham Castle and Bath Abbey.
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