Secular Byzantine women: art, archaeology, and ethnography of female material culture from late Roman to post-Byzantine times
In: Routledge research in Byzantine studies
Part I: Modest Vanity, Social IdentityWomen⁰́₉s accessories from a bath house on Santorini (Thira), Cyclades (2th - 4th centuries)Marina Vogkli and Stavroula Papanikolopoulou 2. Unheard voices of Early Byzantine childhood. On the custom of adorning secular girls with earrings as seen through the evidence of burials Susanne Metaxas3. Not even a band on my finger? Rings of non-elite womenFlorentia Evangelatou-Notara and Kalliope Mavrommati Part 2. Working Girls4. Women and beekeeping ⁰́₃a forbidden liaison? Scattered evidence with emphasis on Christian era (Byzantine ⁰́₃ Medieval culture)Sophia Germanidou5. Eve at the forge: Byzantine women and manual labour. Comments on a rare iconographical theme and its connection to realityKonstantina Gerolymou6. Female family status during the Late Byzantine period; evidence from MS Parisinus graecus 135Eleni Barmparitsa7. Ordinary women in Byzantine funerary contexts from Greece; a view from the bonesParaskevi (Voula) TritsaroliPart 3. Earthly delights, holy concerns8. The ⁰́₈transcendental⁰́₉ role of woman in Early Patristics (theological and philosophical insights)Nevena Dimitrova9. Interpreting the female dances of "Ainoi" (Laudes) in the Post-Byzantine painting Madgalini ParcharidouPart 4. An ethnographic glimpse10. Illustrating the daily life of a woman in Mani during the Post-Byzantine period. A small contribution on the subject.Sofia Menenakou11. Womens⁰́₉ work in pre-industrial rural Greece. An ethnographic point of viewAndromachi Ekonomou