Kate Cooper

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Kate Cooper

Kate Mason Cooper (born October 10, 1960 in Washington, DC ) is a British-American ancient historian .

Kate Cooper received her Masters from Princeton University in 1989 . There she was a lecturer in 1989/90 . She received her doctorate ( Ph.D. ) from Princeton University in 1993 for the thesis, which was supervised by Peter Brown , Concord and martyrdom: Gender, community, and the uses of Christian perfection in late antiquity . From 1992 to 1994 she taught at Barnard College as an assistant professor . From 1995 she taught at the University of Manchester . There she was initially a Lecturer until September 2000 and Senior Lecturer until September 2009. From 1996 to 2012 she was Director at the Center of Late Antiquity in Manchester. From 2010 she taught as a professor of ancient history at the University of Manchester. Since September 2017 she has been teaching as Professor of Ancient History at the Royal Holloway, University of London . She held visiting professorships (2006, 2007, 2008) at the University of Padua . She is married to the British medievalist Conrad Leyser .

Her research focus is Roman times, with a particular interest in daily life and family, religion, gender and social identity, as well as the interrelated problems of martyrdom , resistance movements and religious violence. Her early research focused on gender and rhetoric in the ancient world. Later, the fall of the Roman Empire was explored from the perspective of women and families. For the project Constantine's Dream: Faith, Victory and the search for Roman Unity , she was supported by the RCUK Partnership for Conflict, Crime, and Security Research from 2009 to 2010. For the project The Early Christian Martyr Acts: A New Approach to Ancient Heroes of Resistance she was funded with the Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship (2012–2015). A conference was held in Manchester in 2005 to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Max Gluckman's essay "The Peace in the Feud". The articles were published by Cooper and Conrad Leyser in 2017. The volume dealt with the thematically and spatially broad question of how rulership structures, social relationships and ties changed in the period from 300 to 1200 and what significance conflicts and conflict resolution had in this. She has received numerous awards for her research, including the Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome .

Fonts

Monographs

  • Band of angels. The forgotten world of early Christian women. Atlantic Books, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-84887-328-5 .
  • The fall of the Roman household. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007 ISBN 0-521-88460-8
  • The virgin and the bride. Idealized womanhood in late antiquity. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-674-93949-2 .

Editorships

  • with Conrad Leyser: Making early medieval societies. Conflict and belonging in the Latin West, 300-1200. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2017, ISBN 978-1-316-50360-7 .
  • with Julia Hillner: Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300–900. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2007, ISBN 978-0-521-87641-4 .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Max Gluckman: The Peace in the Feud. In: Past and Present 8, 1955, pp. 1-14.
  2. ↑ See the reviews by Sören Kaschke in: H-Soz-Kult , February 14, 2018, online ; Lioba Geis in: Historische Zeitschrift 307, 2018, pp. 476–477.
personal data
SURNAME Cooper, Kate
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cooper, Kate Mason (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC