This book examines 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 / Studies on Byzantine women in the past has been primarily concerned with religious and imperial figures, but this work comprehensively presents the lives of those secular and non-privileged women

This book examines 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 / Studies on Byzantine women in the past has been primarily concerned with religious and imperial figures, but this work comprehensively presents the lives of those secular and non-privileged women