Dr. Julia Hillner

M.A., Ph.D. (Bonn)

Lecturer in Medieval History

Late Antiquity; in particular the city of Rome; the family; crime and punishment

Office Hours: Autumn 2013-14 - Wednesdays 11am-1pm

j.hillner@sheffield.ac.uk

+44 (0)114 22 22564
 

Jessop West 3.09

Major Publications

Biography

Julia Hillner studied at the University of Bonn, the University of Perugia and the University of Padova (as a Visiting Doctoral Fellow), and graduated with a PhD in Ancient History in 2001. From 2001-2003 she worked as a research associate on the AHRB funded project "Religion, Dynasty and Patronage in Rome, c. 440-840" and taught as a Teaching Fellow in Early Christianity, both at the University of Manchester. Before joining the Sheffield History Department in 2008 she held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Manchester.

Grants and Awards

Graduiertenförderung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen (1998-2000)
British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship (2003-2008)
Senate Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Collaboration Category, Sheffield (2011)
Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander-von-Humboldt Stiftung (2011/12)

Membership of Professional Bodies

Julia is a member of the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC) and also serves on the Roman Society’s Panel of Lecturers.

Research

Current Research

Julia's current research project is a monograph on imprisonment and reform in the late Roman world, to be published with Cambridge University Press, which investigates the roles of lay and monastic households in the conception and administration of private and public punishment.

Research Interests

Julia's research focusses on social history in the period 300 to c. 750. She has a particular interest in the transformations of the family and the household in this period and how these transformations are reflected in legal sources. Her research spans from the urban context of the family, particularly in the late antique city of Rome, where she has investigated issues such as settlement, property transmission and patronage, to issues of authority, hierarchy and discipline within the household. Julia is also a founding member, with Dr Charles West (History) and Dr Jane Rempel, of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities’ interdisciplinary Medieval and Ancient Research Seminar (MARS).

Research Supervision

Julia teaches late antique and early medieval social history. She is happy to supervise students interested in any aspect of this area, in particular those with interests in the city of Rome, the family, monasticism, crime and punishment, and late Roman and early medieval law.

Current PhD Students:
Hannah Probert, Fatherhood in the Early Middle Ages (primary supervisor).
Chrissy Davison, Late Antique Cities in the Rhineland (secondary supervisor).

Responsibilities

To Follow.

Selected Publications

Books

Prison, Punishment and Penance in Late Antiquity (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press)

ed. with K. Cooper, Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300-900 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Jedes Haus ist eine Stadt: Privatimmobilien im spätantiken Rom (Bonn, R. Habelt 2004)

Essays and Articles

- ‘Anicia Iuliana and the Collectio Avellana: What Difference Do Her Letters Make?’, in A. Evers (ed.), Emperors, Bishops, Senators: The Evidence of the Collectio Avellana (Leuven: Peeters, forthcoming 2013)

- ‘Family Violence: Punishment and Abuse in the Late Roman Household’ in S. Tougher and L. Brubaker (eds.), Approaching the Byzantine Family (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming 2012)

- 'Gregory the Great´s prisons: Monastic confinement in early Byzantine Italy', Journal of Early Christian Studies 19 (2011), pp. 433-471.

- 'L´enfermement monastique au VIe siècle' in J. Claustre, I. Heullant-Donant (eds.), Enfermement. Le cloître et la prison (Ve-XVIIIe siècle) (Paris, 2011), pp. 39-56

- 'Monks and Children: Corporal Punishment in Late Antiquity', European Review of History: Revue europeenne d'histoire 16 (2009), pp. 773 – 791.

- 'Monastic Imprisonment in Justinian's Novels', Journal of Early Christian Studies 15 (2007), pp. 205-237.

- 'Families, Patronage, and the Titular Churches of Rome', Religion, Dynasty, and Patronage in Early Christian Rome, 300-900 (Cambridge, 2007) pp. 225-226.

- 'Clerics, Property, and Patronage: The Case of the Roman Titular Churches', Antiquité tardive 14 (2006), pp. 59-68.

- 'Domus, Family, and Inheritance: The Senatorial Family House in Late Antique Rome', Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003), pp. 129-145.

- 'Le chiese paleocristiane di Roma e l'occupazione degli spazi pubblici', Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi sulle Chiese di Roma (IV-X secolo) "Ecclesiae urbis", (Vatican City, 2002), pp. 242-9.

- 'Die Berufsangaben und Adressen auf den stadtrömischen Sklavenhalsbändern', Historia 50 (2001), pp. 193-216.