Dr L. Foubert (Lien)

Associate professor - Department of History, Art History and Classics
Assistant professor - Radboud Institute for Culture and History

Contact

lien.foubert@ru.nl
024-3612826

Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Working days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday

The research of Lien Foubert focuses in particular on the representation of women in the Graeco-Roman world, using both literary and non-literary sources. After completing a dissertation on the public and private roles of Julio-Claudian women, she now concentrates on the subject of travelling women in antiquity.

Tags: Rome, classical antiquity, images of women in the Greek-Roman world, travel and tourism

Publications

Key publications

Betjes, S. & Foubert, L.L. (2025). Flavian feathers. Expressing dynasty and divinity through peacocks. Journal of Ancient History, 13 (1), 159-176. doi: 10.1515/jah-2024-0001 Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2024). Gendered Mobility in the Ancient Mediterranean: Getting Rid of Faceless and Sexless Crowds. In N. Koefoed & R. Raja (Eds.), Women of the Past, Issues for the Present (Women of the Past, 1) (pp. 25-39). Turnhout: Brepols Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2024). Soldiers’ wives en route in Roman Egypt. A study through graffiti, private letters and official documents. In E.M. Greene & L.L. Brice (Eds.), Women and the Army in the Roman Empire (pp. 219-239). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press doi: 10.1017/9781107705982.008
Foubert, L.L. (2023). Antonia Minor. In V.E. Pagán (Ed.), The Tacitus Encyclopedia (pp. 72-74). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Press Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2023). Claudia Sacrata. In V.E. Pagán (Ed.), The Tacitus Encyclopedia (pp. 261). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Press Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2023). Discourses of a changing society. Women's (im)mobility in times of civil war. In L. Dirven, M. Icks & S. Remijsen (Eds.), The Public Lives of Ancient Women (500 BCE-650 CE) (Mnemosyne, Supplements, 468) (pp. 194-219). Leiden: Brill doi: 10.1163/9789004534513_012 Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2023). No ‘great’ Flavian women? Processes of silencing in ancient sources and (early) modern scholarship. Akroterion, 68, 65-83. doi: 10.7445/68--1058 Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2023). Sosia Galla. In V.E. Pagán (Ed.), The Tacitus Encyclopedia (pp. 1008-1009). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Press Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2022). 70. Marcia Procula verruilt Spanje voor Nederland. In L. Heerma van Voss, N. Bouras, M. 't Hart, M. van der Heijden & L. Lucassen (Eds.), Nog meer wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland. Amsterdam: Ambo Anthos
Foubert, L.L. (2022, June 7). The Dilemmas of the Republican Elites. Forced (im)mobility in a Gendered Roman Mediterranean. Bergen (Norway), The 2022 Holberg Week.
Foubert, L.L. (2022). The Toolbox of Shadow Peacebuilders. Women’s (Im)mobility as an Informal Peacekeeping Strategy. Conference Conflict Resolution Practices and Pacification Attitudes during the Republic and Principality: Paris (Sorbonne Université) (2022, November 29).
Foubert, L.L. (2021). Imperial Women and the Dynamics of Power. Managing the Soft Power of Domitia Longina and Julia Titi. In A. Raimondi Cominesi & N. de Haan (Eds.), Emperor Domitian. God on Earth (Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities (PALMA)) (pp. 97-100). Leiden: Sidestone Press
Foubert, L.L. (2020). The Spinning of the Wheels. Women's Travel Stories in Latin Funerary Inscriptions ('Ruedas que giran: historias de viajes femeninos en inscripciones funerarias latinas'). Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua, 38 (1), 137-156. doi: 10.5209/geri.68588 Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2019). De vele gedaantes van Kleopatra. Van de oudheid tot 2019. Hermeneus : Tijdschrift voor Antieke Cultuur, 91 (5), 235-238.
Foubert, L.L. (2019). Let’s Meet at Baiae. A Journey of 2,000 Years to the Edge of Europe. Mediterranean Historical Review, 34 (1), 27-48. doi: 10.1080/09518967.2019.1595885 Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2018). Men and women tourists’ desire to see the world: ‘curiosity’ and ‘a longing to learn’ as (self-) fashioning motifs (1st-5th centuries C.E.). Journal of Tourism History, 10 (1), 5-20. doi: 10.1080/1755182X.2018.1458909 Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2016). Crowded and emptied houses as status markers of aristocratic women in Rome. The literary commonplace of the 'domus frequentata'. Eugesta, 6, 129-150. Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2016). Migrant women in P.Oxy and the port cities of Roman Egypt: tracing women’s travel behaviour in papyrological sources. In Luuk de Ligt & Laurens.E. Tacoma (Eds.), Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire Vol. 23. Studies in Global Social History (pp. 285-304). Leiden: Brill doi: 10.1163/9789004307377_014
Foubert, L.L. (2016). The lure of an exotic destination: the politics of women's travels in the Early Roman Empire. Hermes-Zeitschrift Fur Klassische Philologie, 144 (4), 462-487. Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2016). Vrouwelijk leiderschap in crisissituaties. Livia en Agrippina Maior. Ex Tempore, 35 (1), 83-86. Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2015). Vesta and Julio-Claudian women in imperial propaganda. Ancient Society, 45, 187-204. doi: 10.2143/AS.45.0.3110547 Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2014). Livia en Augustus als exemplarisch echtpaar. Hermeneus : Tijdschrift voor Antieke Cultuur, 86 (2), 50-56.
Foubert, L.L. & Breeze, D. (2014). Mobility in the Roman Empire. In Jim Leary (Ed.), Past Mobilities. Archaeological Approaches to Movement and Mobility (pp. 175-186). Aldershot: Ashgate Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2013). Female travellers in Roman Britain: Vibia Pacata and Julia Lucilla. In Emily Hemelrijk & Greg Woolf (Eds.), Women and the Roman city in the Latin west Vol. 360. Mnemosyne Supplementum (pp. 391-403). Leiden: Brill doi: 10.1163/9789004255951_021
Foubert, L.L. (2011). The impact of women’s travels on military imagery in the Julio-Claudian period. In Olivier Hekster & Ted Kaizer (Eds.), Frontiers in the Roman World. Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Durham, 16-19 April 2009) Vol. 13. Impact of Empire (Roman Empire) (pp. 349-362). Leiden: Brill doi: 10.1163/ej.9789004201194.i-378.78
Kleijn, G. de & Foubert, L.L. (2011). De samenleving. In Nathalie de Haan & Stephan Mols (Eds.), Cultuurgeschiedenis van de oudheid (pp. 229-247). Zwolle: WBOOKS
Foubert, L.L. (2010). Het huis als symbool: Augustus’ woning op de Palatijn. In Charles Hupperts & Elly Jans (Eds.), Laus Romae. Hoofdstukken uit de geschiedenis van Rome (pp. 46-54). Leeuwarden: Damon
Foubert, L.L. (2010). Literary constructions of female identities. The parallel lives of Julio-Claudian women in Tacitus’ 'Annals'. In Carl Deroux (Ed.), Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History (Collection Latomus, 323) (pp. 344-365). Bruxelles: Latomus
Foubert, L.L. (2010). The Palatine dwelling of the 'mater familias'. Houses as symbolic space in the Julio-Claudian period. Klio : Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, 92 (1), 65-82. Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2010, May 12). Women going public. Ideals and conflicts in the representation of Julio-Claudian women. Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen (X, 233 pag.) (s.l.: s.n.) Supervisor(s): prof. dr. O.J. Hekster & prof. dr. E.A. Hemelrijk. Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2008). De kracht van beelden: beeldvorming van Julisch-Claudische vrouwen. In Marloes Bergmans & et al. (Eds.), SOJA-bundel 2007. Symposium voor Onderzoek door Jonge Archeologen, Groningen, 16 maart 2007. (pp. 83-88). Amsterdam: Stichting Onderzoek Jonge Archeologen
Foubert, L.L. (2008). De kracht van het weefgetouw. Romeinse vrouwen en textielarbeid. Historica, 31 (2), 9-11. Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2008). Luxe voor het lichaam. In Louis Swinkels, Susanna Piras & Annelies Koster (Eds.), Luxe en decadentie. Leven aan de Romeinse goudkust (pp. 86-97). Nijmegen: Museum Het Valkhof
Foubert, L.L. (2007). Bij moeder op schoot: Nero en Agrippina. Ex Tempore, 26 (26), 176-186. Full text
Foubert, L.L. (2006). Agrippina. Keizerin van Rome. Leuven: Davidsfonds

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