Where are the women historians?

[philsidnell]

Publishing as a whole is a female-dominated industry. I happily consider proposals from both female and male authors, though the former are in the clear minority in our field of military history.

You might want to look out for books in the future from Alex[andra] Dimond (Sparta's Last Stand: Cleomenes III and the Road to Sellasia]; Birgitta Hoffmann (comparing the archaeological and literary evidence for the Roman invasion of Britain); Elizabeth James (a military biography of Constantine the Great) and I am considering a biography of another famous Roman from another female writer.

Phil
Commissioning Editor
Pen & Sword Books

[ParthianBow]

I have on my desk a 200+ page treatise on The Roman Republican Navy by Christa Steinby. It's most definitely not about women!

[Alanus]

In my field (somewhere between the chaffe and hay) I read military and history books, and what I've noticed is an ever-expanding volume by women authors. Frankly, we always needed this type of viewpoint, and we're getting more of it. I like archeaology and anthropology, which sometimes compliments military or warrior history.

Here are few:

Elizabeth Barber wrote an excellent tome on the The Mummies of Urumchi, linking them to the Kushans.

Jeannine Davis-Kimball gave us Warrior Women, one of the best-thought-out books on Saka/Sarmatian women (in fact, the only one). In her studies, she rebuked the decades-old notion that the Golden Man of Issyk was a man, backing up her argument with good research. Yes, the person was more likely a high warrior priestess.

Pita Kelekna recently penned The Horse in Human History, which supercedes The Onger in Chimpanzee History (now outdated).

Years ago, Marija Gambutas wrote excellent material on the early Indo-Europeans, sometimes challenged but now gaining a little respect.

We're just looking at stuff in the English language, but Russian women authors are out there too. It's more than a trend. It's 50% of reality and it's needed.

[Epictetus]

The Onger in Chimpanzee History

:???:

[Alanus]

It's a rather short book-- written on a rock with charcoal, author, publisher unknown.
Sorry. No ISBN number to reference. Check Loeb Library or one of the more obscure ones... like The Homer & Jethro Institute of Higher Learning.:mrgreen:

[M. Demetrius]

One wag read the title of this thread and said, "That's easy: they're in the kitchen feeding the baby."
I looked at him and said, "You're still single, right?"
"Yes", he said.
"I thought so."

Ladies, I slapped him for you already.

[Alanus]

Good for you!:grin:

[Vindex]

One wag read the title of this thread and said, "That's easy: they're in the kitchen feeding the baby."
I looked at him and said, "You're still single, right?"
"Yes", he said.
"I thought so."

Ladies, I slapped him for you already.

Thank you, but physical violence is not always necessary. Medusa is nothing on me...:wink:

[Decebalus]

Some more to add:

Danae Richter, "Das römische Heer auf der Trajanssäule" (The Roman Army on Traian's Column) Wiesbaden 2010

Cristina-Georgeta Alexandrescu, "Blasmusiker und Standartenträger im römischen Heer" (Trumpeters and Standardbearers in the Roman Army") Cluj-Napoca 2010

Mahand Vogt, "Spangenhelme" Mainz 2006

Heide Frielinghaus, "Die Helme von Olympia" (The helmets from Olympia) Berlin 2011 (forthcoming)

Greets

[Alanus]

Ladies, I slapped him for you already.

Hopefully, there are ways of "slapping" someone without being physical. I assumed it was metaphorical.:roll:

But when a person catagorizes an entire sector of humanity-- actually one half of it-- as "in the kitchen" he or she needs a wake-up call.

[M. Demetrius]

Oh, yes. Metaphorically, of course. :wink:

[Forty-One]

Anna Comnena (or doesn't she count?)

[Virilis]

Anna Comnena (or doesn't she count?)

That's a good one !