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Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
University of Paderborn
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Ancient economic history; Gender Studies; Roman Egypt; Textile Research; Reception studies; Historiography; Papyrology
Universität Paderborn
Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften
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Books by Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
K. Droß-Krüpe, K. Ruffing (Hrsg.), Von Gerste, Göttern, Geld und Gesetzen. Eine Kultur- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte von Bier in der Antike, Baden-Baden 2025 (Oeconomica 2).
(eds.)Eine kleine Geschichte der Orks. Der monströse Feind im Wandel der Zeit, Berlin 2024, 160 pages.
Ein Tötungsverbot gehört zu den Grundregeln aller zivilisierten Gesellschaften - im Krieg ist die...
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Ein Tötungsverbot gehört zu den Grundregeln aller zivilisierten Gesellschaften - im Krieg ist dieses Verbot aber plötzlich außer Kraft gesetzt. Dies führt zu sozialen, religiösen und ideologischen Problemen, die häufig durch die Dehumanisierung der Gegner gelöst werden. Der Feind wird zum Monster. In der Populärkultur übernehmen heute meist Orks die Rolle des monströsen Feindes. Das moderne Bild der Orks wurde zwar von J.R.R. Tolkien geprägt, er konnte jedoch auf eine lange Tradition der Darstellung des Feindes als Monster zurückgreifen, die im vorliegenden Band analysiert wird.
(eds.) Textile Crossroads: Exploring European Clothing, Identity, and Culture across Millennia. Anthology of COST Action „CA19131 – EuroWeb“, Lincoln – London 2024, 377 pages.
The essays in this volume address various aspects of textile research, encompassing a wide chrono...
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The essays in this volume address various aspects of textile research, encompassing a wide chronological perspective and vast geographical area. They enrich traditional disciplines with innovative methodologies, such as isotopic tracing of provenance, textile analysis, digital motion capture, protein analysis, and exploration of textile expressions in texts and folklore. All essays have been written by international teams of scholars. They should serve as a comprehensive and innovative resource, consolidating the research outcomes and insights gained from the interdisciplinary exploration of textiles in European history within the framework of the COST action "EuroWeb".
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The anthology features 17 chapters by 57 authors across 20 countries, covering diverse aspects of textile culture and interdisciplinary inquiries.
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Muziris 1: Trade and Seafaring in Antiquity Red Sea – Persian Gulf – Indian Ocean Proceedings of the 1st Muziris Workshop, Trier, 28th May 2021: Cover, Contents, Introduction
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Sven Guenther
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
, and
Stefan Baumann
Trade and Seafaring in Antiquity Red Sea – Persian Gulf – Indian Ocean Proceedings of the 1st Muziris Workshop, Trier, 28th May 2021 Edited by Stefan Baumann, Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Sebastian Fink, Sven Günther and Patrick Reinard
, 2023
(eds.) Orientalist Gazes. Reception and Construction of Images of the Ancient Near East since the 17th Century (wEdge 3), Münster 2023, 221 pages.
(eds.) Markt, Märkte und Marktgebäude in der antiken Welt (Philippika 100), Wiesbaden 2022, 650 pages.
Obwohl die Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Alten Welt in der gegenwärtigen Forschung große Aufmerksamke...
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Obwohl die Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Alten Welt in der gegenwärtigen Forschung große Aufmerksamkeit genießt, wird in den einschlägigen Analysen mit einem vergleichsweise amorphen Marktbegriff operiert – ‚Markt‘ ist einfach allgegenwärtig und wird nicht weiter kontextualisiert. Dieses Desiderat der Forschung nimmt der vorliegende Band zum Ausgangspunkt. Als Resultat einer Tagung an der Universität Kassel vereinigt er 26 Beiträge in deutscher und englischer Sprache, die unterschiedliche Aspekte von Markt, Marktgeschehen und Marktorten vom antiken Vorderen Orient bis ins Rom der Spätantike behandeln. Er bietet so einen ersten Baustein für eine komparative Geschichte des antiken Marktes in all seinen Erscheinungsformen.
(eds.), Powerful Women in the Ancient World, Münster 2021 (Melammu Workshops and Monographs 4), 586 pages
by
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
and
Sebastian Fink
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe / Sebastian Fink: Preface and Acknowledgements

Powerful Women in the An...
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Kerstin Droß-Krüpe / Sebastian Fink: Preface and Acknowledgements
Powerful Women in the Ancient World in the Light of the Sources
Annette Zgoll: Innana conquers Ur: A Hitherto Unknown Myth Created by En-ḫedu-ana for Mutual Empowerment
Gina Konstantopoulos: The Many Lives of Enheduana: Identity, Authorship, and the “World’s First Poet”
Nicole Brisch: Šamḫat: Deconstructing Temple Prostitution One Woman at a Time
David A. Warburton: Hatshepsut: The Feminine Horus and Daughter of Amun on the Throne of Atum
Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones: Bathsheba and Beyond: Harem Politics in the Ancient Near East
Martti Nissinen: The Agency of Female Prophets in the Bible: Independent or Instrumental? Prophetic or Political?
Stéphanie Anthonioz: Women at the Heart of the Tribal System in the Book of Genesis
Paola Corò: Between a Queen and an Ordinary Woman: On Laodice and the Representation of Women in Cuneiform Sources in the Hellenistic Period
Claudia Horst: Antigone: Political Power and Resonance
Florian Krüpe: Mighty, but quiet? Elpinice between Conflicting Priorities in Interpretations and Sources
Sabine Müller: On a Dynastic Mission: Olympias and Kleopatra, Agents of their House
Timothy Howe: (Re)Taking Halikarnassos: Ada, Alexander the Great and Karian Queenship
Josefine Kuckertz: Amanishakheto: A Meroitic Ruling Queen of the Late 1st Cent. BC / Early 1st Cent. AD
Kordula Schnegg: Cornelia: A Powerful Woman
Francesca Rohr Vio: Domum servavit, lanam fecit: Livia and the Rewriting of the Female Model in the Augustan Age
Christiane Kunst: Iulia maior on the Move: exemplum licentiae and euergetis
Helmuth Schneider: Der Tod Messalinas. Folge sexueller Libertinage oder Machtkalkül?
Brigitte Truschnegg: Feminine, influential and different? The Presentation of Julia Domna
Udo Hartmann: Zenobia of Palmyra: A Female Roman Ruler in Times of Crisis
Ireneusz Milewski: “Earthly yoke”? The Estate of Valeria Melania
Ewan Short / Eve MacDonald: Shirin in Context: Female Agency and the Wives of the Sasanian King Khosrow Parviz
Powerful Women in the Ancient World in Modern Thought
François de Callataÿ: Cleopatra as a Strong Woman in Modern Times: A less Negative Episode in a Disfigured Tradition?
Martin Lindner: Rome Herself: Female Characters in Günther Birkenfeld’s Augustus Novels (1934–1984)
Anja Wieber: Depicting the Palmyrene Queen Zenobia: From Baroque “femmes fortes” to Modern Comic Books
Semiramis, de qua innumerabilia narrantur.
Rezeption und Verargumentierung der Königin von Babylon von der Antike bis in die opera seria des Barock
Semiramis, die legendäre Königin von Babylon, gehörte bis in das 20. Jahrhundert hinein zu den be...
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Semiramis, die legendäre Königin von Babylon, gehörte bis in das 20. Jahrhundert hinein zu den bekanntesten und am stärksten rezipierten Gestalten der antiken Welt. Als Frau, die von Babylon aus das Großreich der Assyrer regierte und erfolgreiche Eroberungskriege führte, wurde sie in einer Vielzahl antiker Quellentexte teils mit Bewunderung, teils mit tiefer Abscheu beschrieben. Schnell avancierte sie so zum Paradigma – einerseits für das weibliche Geschlecht, andererseits für die Ausübung von Macht, aber auch für den antiken ‚Orient‘ im Allgemeinen. Semiramis findet sich in der Folge in nahezu allen Literatur- und Kunstgattungen der Spätantike, des Mittelalters, der Renaissance und der Frühen Neuzeit und erhielt so einen festen Platz im kulturellen Gedächtnis der westlichen Welt. An ihr wurden über die Epochen hinweg Weiblichkeit und Herrschaft miteinander verknüpft, Transgressionen von weiblichen Handlungsräumen thematisiert, Geschlechterordnungen und Geschlechternormen verhandelt und Handlungsspielräume für das weibliche Geschlecht reflektiert.
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe folgt den Spuren der Semiramis durch die Jahrhunderte – von der griechischen Historiographie des 5. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. bis auf die Opernbühnen des Barock. Sie kombiniert so eine historisch-kritische Aufarbeitung des in den antiken Quellentexten präsentierten Semiramisbildes mit der späteren Wahrnehmung, Aneignung und Verargumentierung der Semiramis als Figur der Erinnerung.
Societies at War. Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium of the Melammu Project held in Kassel September 26-28 2016 & Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium Held in Kiel November 11-15 2014, Wien 2020 (Melammu Symposia 10) (mit Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Sebastian Fink und Robert Rollinger)
by
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
Kai Ruffing
, and
Sebastian Fink
Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Beiträge zur Wirtschafts-, Sozial-, Rezeptions- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte der Antike. Festschrift für Hans-Joachim Drexhage zum 70. Geburtstag, Wiesbaden 2018 (Philippika 125). (mit K. Droß-Krüpe)
by
Kai Ruffing
and
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
Helmuth Schneider. Antike zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Gesammelte Schriften zur Wirtschafts-, Technik- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Philippika 95) (mit Kerstin Droß-Krüpe).
by
Kai Ruffing
and
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
Great Women on Stage. The Reception of Women Monarchs from Antiquity in Baroque Opera, Wiesbaden 2017.
Baroque opera is entirely plurimedial. Like no other medium, it offers unique possibilities to cr...
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Baroque opera is entirely plurimedial. Like no other medium, it offers unique possibilities to create, transform and reinterpret common historical images and figures, using different but closely intertwined semantic levels (drama, music, acting). This makes baroque opera a promising subject of historical, political and gender-specific analysis.
The present volume is based on a session of the Eleventh European Social Science History conference in 2016 and examines the (re-)presentation of antique female rulers in baroque opera. The volume is not about music history or music theory studies, but deals with how, in the baroque period, librettists, composers and stage processed the ancient material in order to present female rulers on stage. Baroque opera is a particularly suitable model of study, as ancient themes occupy a prominent place during that period of time.
Textiles, Trade and Theories. From the Ancient Near East to the Mediterranean, Münster 2016 (KEF 2) (mit Marie-Louise Nosch).
by
Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
and
Marie-Louise B Nosch
Textiles have always been among the most popular goods of mankind. Considering their significance...
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Textiles have always been among the most popular goods of mankind. Considering their significance in the ancient Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East alike as well as their value as key economic assets, textiles hold a significant potential for the understanding of the ancient economy. Making them the subject of more detailed economic analyses in their own right is a central objective of the present volume. As it is neither possible to analyze distributional patterns and distribution channels for ancient textile material on the basis of written sources nor on the basis of archaeological findings alone, this volume brings together different source material, disciplines and methodological approaches, including modern Economics, to analyze textile material traded, trade-routes, sales and buying markets, and the forming and operating of institutions that ensured a smooth running of textile exchange processes.
Antike Wirtschaft und ihre kulturelle Prägung. The Cultural Shaping of the Ancient Economy, Wiesbaden 2016 (Philippika 98) (mit Kerstin Droß-Krüpe und Sabine Föllinger)
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Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
and
Kai Ruffing
Wolle - Weber - Wirtschaft. Die Textilproduktion der römischen Kaiserzeit im Spiegel der papyrologischen Überlieferung
More details at: http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_4000.ahtml (German)

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In all epochs textiles played a mayor role in the social and economic fabric of any community. Together with food and shelter they are basic human needs. Textiles not only protect the body from climatic conditions, but can also be used to express the social, professional, gender or economic status of their bearer. In the Roman Empire textile economy has been of particular importance – after agriculture this was the second most important field of activity, securing earning opportunities for many people.
Focussing on documentary papyri from Roman Egypt this study examined the manufacturing process for textiles. Especially these texts have been very effective for the analysis of economic questions, being the only way of providing an unfiltered view of real life circumstances of all population classes in the Roman province Aegyptus. Challenging the paradigm of Egypt as a special region of the Roman Empire, which circumstances are contrary to all other regions, consequently encourages the study of the available documents of this province. This backdrop moves the significance of papyri into the focus of ancient economic history research. Only with the help of these texts is it possible to extract immediate and unbiased information regarding business relations, prices, the assumed market, ways of procurement and the network between producer, distributor and consumer. Furthermore papyri unlike most literally sources reveal information from a broad social spectrum, particularly the middle and lower classes.
Starting from a formalistic approach Wolle – Weber – Wirtschaft sheds new light on the imperial textile economy in the private and state sector alike, challenging traditional research views. By analyzing the well documented example of Roman Egypt explanatory models of the workings and mechanisms of textile production are developed. Results deriving from experimental archaeology are included, and material from other parts of the Empire is used as comparison. Particular attention is given to the people involved in textile productions (by analysing professions, apprenticeships and gender aspects) and to profitability of this economic sector (by doing cost-benefit analyses allowing for production times). Using an interdisciplinary approach disclosed operations in this economic sector reflected in the design of visual flowcharts. The mechanisms identified for the textile industry of imperial Egypt can serve as a foundation for further research about ancient crafts and ancient economy – the transferability of these mechanisms for the Roman Empire as a whole is likely, but will have to be proven in the future.
Papers by Kerstin Droß-Krüpe
Süßes Gold. Ein Fall von Vandalismus an Bienenstöcken im römischen Ägypten, in: K. Ruffing et al. (eds.), Navigating the Worlds of History, Band 1, Wiesbaden 2024, 35-48.
Not Paying Taxes in Roman Egypt, in: K. Schönhärl, G. Hürlimann & D. Rohde (eds.), Histories of Tax Evasion, Avoidance and Resistance, New York 2023, 71-83.
The importance of taxes for the existence and continuation of the imperium Romanum 2 was emphasis...
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The importance of taxes for the existence and continuation of the imperium Romanum 2 was emphasised already by Cicero in his extant speech pro lege Manilia in 66 BC, when he supported the proposal of Gaius Manilius to grant Pompey an extraordinary command during the Third Mithridatic War (89-63 BC). 3 In this speech, Cicero describes taxes as being the nerves of the state. And at the beginning of the third century AD, Cassius Dio in his History explains in detail the necessity of tax assessment: 4 From what source, then, is the money to be provided for these soldiers and for the other expenses that will of necessity be incurred? […] For
Ex India rediens hic fuit. Dokumentarische Quellen zu den Akteuren im römischen Rotmeerhandel von Augustus bis in die severische Zeit, in: St. Baumann et al. (eds.), Trade and Seafaring in Antiquity: Red Sea – Persian Gulf – Indian Ocean, Münster 2023 (Muziris 1), 167-198.
This paper deals with the players involved in eastern trade via the Egyptian Red Sea ports during...
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This paper deals with the players involved in eastern trade via the Egyptian Red Sea ports during imperial times. Starting from the much cited literary tradition of Strabo and Pliny the Elder, it analyzes the documentary evidence from Roman Egypt, arranging the sources not ethnically, but chronologically. By doing so it aims at better portraying structural and personal changes in the trade via Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα during the first three centuries AD.
Semiramis als vorbildhafte Frau in Petrarcas familiarium rerum liber, in: Chr. Antenhofer & U. Leitner (Hrsg.), Geschlecht und Materialität. Historische Perspektiven auf Erziehung, Bildung und Sozialisation von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, Bielefeld 2024, 93-116.
Vertrag statt Vertrauen? Überlegungen zur Lehrlingsausbildung im frühkaiserzeitlichen Ägypten, in: P. Reinard & Chr. Rollinger (Hrsg.), Vertrauen als ökonomische Ressource in der antiken Marktwirtschaft, Gutenberg 2023 (ScrMerc Beihefte 3), 287-304.
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