Dr. Pedro David Conesa Navarro
December 2021
Research Project: Power and Veneration to the domus diuina. Imperial Cult and Representation of the Severan Dynasty in Rome, Hispania and Africa
This research project aims at providing a comprehensive study of the Imperial Cult and the dialogue established between the Imperial Chancery and the citizens of the Empire drawing from the epigraphic, literary and iconographic records in from the time of the Severan Dynasty. To this end, special attention will be paid to the provinces of Hispania and Africa. Beyond the funds available in the centre's library, the scholarship at the RomanIslam Center would allow me to go deeper into the main aspects proposed in the project and to have a comparative and multidisciplinary vision.
In this project the main aspects will be: To analyse the policy of consensus promoted by the Imperial Chancellery through iconographic motifs, the study of the main literary and epigraphic testimonies; to know the socio-political reality of the imperial capital during the Severan Dynasty and its confrontation with the provincial territories of Hispania and Africa; analyse the dedications offered in the imperial capital and the provinces of Hispania and Africa. Therefore, carrying out this work, we will study the vision of the sovereign and his family in the last years of the High Empire, in addition, the main mechanisms of dialogue between the Imperial Chancellery and its subjects that continued to be maintained in later periods.
Profile
Dr. Pedro David Conesa Navarro completed the BA studies in History at the University of Murcia (Spain) between 2006 and 2011, with the extraordinary end – of – degree prize. He studied the “Master Interuniversitario en Historia y Ciencias de la Antigüedad” at the University Complutense of Madrid and University Autonomous of Madrid (2012) and he obtained a Predoctoral Fellowship financed of the Agencia Seneca (Gobern of the Region of Murcia) in 2015. On October 9th 2020 he defended his doctoral thesis under joint supervision by the universities of Murcia and Rome – Tor Vergata. He did different research stays at Rome (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom); Cambridge (University of Cambridge), and Heidelberg (Universität Heidelberg – Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik). He was assistant lecturer of Ancient Art at the University Autonomous of Barcelona. He has also done different book chapters in prestigious presses (Oxbow, Tirant Humanidades, Cambridge Scholars Publishing). He has been part of research groups: Antigüedad y Cristianismo (University of Murcia); Arqueología (University of Murcia); ARHIS: Arqueología Histórica y Patrimonio del Mediterráneo Ocidental (University of Murcia), and Deméter. Maternidad, género y familia (University of Oviedo). His main research topics are: Roman Women, the Severan Dynasty and the Roman Culture. Currently, He is secretary of the Journal Antigüedad y Cristianismo and member of the research centre CEPOAT (Centro del Próximo Oriente y la Antigüedad Tardía) of the University of Murcia.
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Selected Publications
Conesa Navarro, Pedro David (2021), “La imagen al servicio del poder. Propaganda política en la domus severiana: los retratos de Fuluia Plautilla”, in: F. Díaz Marcilla, J. Tomás García and Y. Sobral Dos Santos, eds., Global History, Visual Culture and Itinerances. Changes and Continuities, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 145-186.
Conesa Navarro, Pedro David (2019a), “Faustina la Menor y Julia Domna como matres castrorum. Dos mujeres al servicio de la propaganda imperial de las dinastías antonina y severa”, Lucentum 38, 281-299.
Conesa Navarro, Pedro David (2019b), “Julia Maesa y Julia Soemias en la corte de Heliogábalo: el poder femenino de la domus severiana”, Studia historica. Historia Antigua 37, 185-223.
Conesa Navarro, Pedro David (2019c), “Los conlactei en la Roma Antigua. Imágenes epigráficas, iconográficas y literarias”, in: S. Reboreda Morillo, eds., Visiones sobre la lactancia en la Antigüedad. Pernanencias, cambios y ruputuras (Dialogues d´histoire ancienne, supplement 19), Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 171-192.
Conesa Navarro, Pedro David / Rafael González Fernández (2018a), “Fulvia Plautilla, sponsa Antonini Augusti et iam Augusta nuncupata. Política dinástica del emperador Septimio Severo”, Latomus 77.3, 671-693.
Conesa Navarro, Pedro David (2018b), “The relationship of Iulia Mamaea and Alexander Severus, a young imperator. A review through literary sources”, en M. Sánchez Romero and R. Mª Cid López, eds., Motherhood & Infancies in the Mediterraean in Antiquity, Oxford/Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 247-262.
GONZÁLEZ FERNÁNDEZ, R. CONESA NAVARRO, P. D. (2017), “La dinastía severa y el nomen Aurellius. Septimio Severo y la gens Aurelia”, Athenaeum, 105, 1, pp. 137-152.
Conesa Navarro, Pedro David / Rafael González Fernández (2016a), “Fulvia Plautilla, instrumento legitimador y poder político de la dinastía y del prefecto del Prefecto del Pretorio”, Athenaeum 104.1, 129-157.
Conesa Navarro, Pedro David / Rafael González Fernández (2016b) “Honesta Mors. Suicidas y muertes inducidas de mujeres en la antigua Roma”, in: R. Rodríguez López and M.ª. J. Bravo Bosch, eds., Mujeres en tiempos de Augusto. Realidad social e imposición legal, Valencia: Tirant, 585-611.
Conesa Navarro, Pedro David / Rafael González Fernández (2015), “De salvajes a domesticadas: ensayo sobre la justificación de la condición femenina en el mundo romano”, Revue des Études Anciennes 117.1, 87-108