Secular Byzantine Women

Art, Archaeology, and Ethnography of Female Material Culture from Late Roman to Post-Byzantine Times
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-67207-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies

Secular Byzantine Women examines female material culture during the Late Roman, Byzantine, and Post-Byzantine eras, to better understand the lives of ordinary and humble women during this period.

Although recent scholarship has contributed greatly to our knowledge of Byzantine and medieval women, such research has largely focused on female saints, imperial figures, and prominent women of local communities. But what about secular and non-privileged women? Bringing together scholars from various fields, including archaeology, history, theology, anthropology, and ethnography, this volume seeks to answer this important question. The chapters examine the everyday lives of lay women, including their working routines, their clothing, and precious possessions.

This book will appeal to scholars and students of Byzantine history, art, and archaeology, as well as those interested in gender and material culture studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Germanidou, Sophia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Women’s accessories from a bath house on Santorini (Thira), Cyclades (2th - 4th centuries) / Unheard voices of Early Byzantine childhood. On the custom of adorning secular girls with earrings as seen through the evidence of burials / Not even a band on my finger? Rings of non-elite women / Women and beekeeping –a forbidden liaison? Scattered evidence with emphasis on Christian era (Byzantine – Medieval culture) / Eve at the forge: Byzantine women and manual labour. Comments on a rare iconographical theme and its connection to reality / Female family status during the Late Byzantine period; evidence from MS Parisinus graecus 135 / Ordinary women in Byzantine funerary contexts from Greece; a view from the bones / The ‘transcendental’ role of woman in Early Patristics (theological and philosophical insights) / Interpreting the female dances of "Ainoi" (Laudes) in the Post-Byzantine painting / Illustrating the daily life of a woman in Mani during the Post-Byzantine period. A small contribution on the subject / Womens’ work in pre-industrial rural Greece. An ethnographic point of view

Über Autor(innen)

Sophia Germanidou is currently a Marie Curie Fellow in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University. Her main interests include Byzantine iconography, vernacular architecture, and the investigation of rural activities in medieval communities.