Lin Foxhall

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Lin Foxhall FSA (* 1961 ) is a British ancient historian and archaeologist . Her main focus is on the economy and society of ancient Greece and Italy. Foxhall researches and publishes on issues relating to ancient agriculture and land use and the gender aspects of ancient societies.

Life

After studying at Bryn Mawr College , the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Liverpool , she joined the University of Leicester in 1993 . From 1997 to 2000 she headed the British Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies . In 1999 she became Professor of Greek Archeology and History in Leicester, where she headed the School of Archeology and Ancient History from 2002 to 2015 as well as a research network funded by the Leverhulme Foundation for the development of ancient handicraft techniques around the Mediterranean. She was particularly committed to the preservation of old and the purchase of new church bells in over 150 English parishes from funds of the National Lottery and was involved in the discovery and excavation of the remains of Richard III. involved.

Foxhall lives in Melton Mowbray . She is married to an archaeologist and has three children. One of her sons-in-law is the early medieval archaeologist Guy Halsall .

Fonts (selection)

  • Women's ritual and men's work in ancient Athens. In: Richard Hawley, Barbara Levick (Eds.): Women in Antiquity. New assessments. Routledge, London / New York 1995, ISBN 0-203-42855-2 , pp. 97-110.
  • as ed. with ADE Lewis: Greek law in its political setting: Justifications not Justice. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1996, ISBN 0-198-14085-1 .
  • as ed. with John Salmon: Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition (= Leicester-Nottingham studies in ancient society. Volume 7). Routledge, London / New York 1998, ISBN 1-134-68698-6 .
  • Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece: Seeking the Ancient Economy. Wiley, Oxford / New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-191-51841-6 .
  • as ed. with Hans-Joachim Gehrke and Nino Luraghi : Intentional History: Spinning Time in Ancient Greece . Steiner, Stuttgart 2010.
  • Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
  • as ed. with Gabriele Neher: Gender and the City before Modernity. Wiley, Chichester 2013, ISBN 978-1-118-23443-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Gray Friars Research Team with Maev Kennedy and Lin Foxhall: The Bones of a King: Richard III Rediscovered. Wiley 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Foxhall, Lin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British archaeologist and ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1961