Secular Byzantine Women

ISBN-13: 9780367672072 / Miękka / 2023 / 218 str.

Opis

This book examines female material culture during the Late Roman, Byzantine, and Post-Byzantine eras, in order to better understand the lives of humble women during this period. It will appeal to scholars and students of Byzantine history, art and archaeology, as well as those interested in gender and material culture studies.

Recenzje

‘A variety of sources and approaches motivates this collective female work that broadens our horizons in this fascinating area of Byzantine culture … Sofia Germanidou responded felicitously to the editorial task, achieving consistent scholarship, uniform, well-documented and convincing papers, amply supported both from primary sources and secondary modern bibliography. As a result, individually and collectively, the essays of the volume offer insight and make a meaningful contribution to the field’ - Byzantina Symmeikta, Volume 32 (2022).

Spis treści

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

 

O autorze

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.