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Secular Byzantine women : art, archaeology, and ethnography of female material culture from late Roman to post-Byzantine times / edited by Sophia Germanidou.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge research in Byzantine studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Rome--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Women--History--To 1500.
- Material culture--Rome--History.
- Material culture.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvi, 218 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Series title from front cover.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 06, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Secular Byzantine women
- ISBN:
- 9781003014058
- 1003014054
- 9781000537307
- 1000537307
- 9781000537345
- 100053734X
- Publisher Number:
- 40031109452
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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