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.

• 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

‘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).