8/8/2023 0 Comments Deborahharkness![]() Their marriage had not been a happy one Octavian felt she nagged him too much. Their daughter Julia the Elder was born in 39 BC, probably in October, and on that very same day Octavian divorced her. Octavian in turn divorced his wife Clodia Pulchra, marrying Scribonia to cement a political alliance with her niece Scribonia's husband Sextus Pompey. In 40 BC Scribonia was forced to divorce her husband and marry Octavian, who was younger than she was by several years. Scribonia may have also been the mother to Publius Cornelius Scipio, consul in 16 BC. They had a daughter Cornelia Scipio who married the censor Lucius Aemilius Paullus. ![]() Her second husband perhaps was Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito, a supporter of Pompey. He may have died young and ignored by historians. Her first husband is unknown, although it had been suggested that he was Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (consul 56 BC), as there is an inscription that refers to freedmen (post 39 BC) of Scribonia and her son Cornelius Marcellinus, indicating that she had a son from her previous marriage and that he was living with her after she divorced her third husband. According to Suetonius, Scribonia's first two marriages were to former consuls. Her brother of the same name was consul and died in 34 BC. Scribonia was the daughter of a Lucius Scribonius Libo, probably the praetor of that name of 80 BC. She was the mother-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, great-grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, grandmother-in-law of the Emperor Claudius, and great-great grandmother of the Emperor Nero. And I was honored to receive accolades for my historical work from the History of Science Society, the North American Conference on British Studies, and the Longman’s/History Today Prize Committee.Scribonia (68 BC - AD 16) was the second wife of the Roman Emperor Augustus and the mother of his only natural child, Julia the Elder. It has been my privilege to receive fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. I’ve also written articles on topics such as the influence of theatrical conventions on the occult sciences, scientific households, female medical practice in early modern London, medical curiosity, and the influence of accounting practices on scientific record keeping. My scholarly work can be found in John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (Yale University Press, 2007). Prior to that, I taught medical history at the Northwestern University Medical School, the history of science and medicine at the University of California at Davis, paleography at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Oxford, and early modern European history at Colgate University. These experiences have given me a deep and abiding love of libraries and a deep respect for librarians.Ĭurrently, I teach European history and the history of science to undergraduates and graduate students at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Huntington Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Newberry Library-in other words, I know my way around a card catalogue or the computerized equivalent. The libraries I’ve worked in include Oxford’s Bodleian Library, the All Souls College Library at Oxford, the British Library, London’s Guildhall Library, the Henry E. For my doctoral degree, I researched the history of magic and science in Europe, especially during the period from 1500 to 1700. In 2018, I published Time’s Convert, a “prequelly sequel” to the trilogy, which debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list (for combined print & e-book fiction).īefore that, I spent more than a quarter of a century as a student and scholar of history, with degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Northwestern University, and the University of California at Davis. The story of Diana and Matthew continues in Shadow of Night (2012) which debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and The Book of Life (2014) which debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, the Sunday Times bestseller list, and The Globe and Mail bestseller list. ![]() In total, more than thirty-seven foreign editions and translations of volumes from the trilogy have been published. A Discovery of Witches debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, and was also a bestseller in the UK, France, and Germany.
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