A conversation with Anna Kelley about women’s labor and occupations in the Roman and later Roman Empire. It turns out that they may have engaged in more types of business and workshop production, especially in textile manufacture and marketing, than contemporary gender norms suggest.
Anna Kelley is a Research Fellow in Early Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews. Her research focuses on economics and labour in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Click here to view her university webpage.
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The conversation is based on Anna’s article ‘Searching for Professional Women in the Mid to Late Roman Textile Industry,’ Past and Present 258 (2023) 3-43. Click here to read this article.
Byzantium & Friends is hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, a Professor at the University of Chicago. You can follow him on his personal website.
Top Image: Workers putting up clothes for drying. Roman fresco from the fullonica (fuller’s shop) of Veranius Hypsaeus in Pompeii. Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples) – Wikimedia Commons
A conversation with Anna Kelley about women’s labor and occupations in the Roman and later Roman Empire. It turns out that they may have engaged in more types of business and workshop production, especially in textile manufacture and marketing, than contemporary gender norms suggest.
Anna Kelley is a Research Fellow in Early Medieval History at the University of St. Andrews. Her research focuses on economics and labour in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Click here to view her university webpage.
The conversation is based on Anna’s article ‘Searching for Professional Women in the Mid to Late Roman Textile Industry,’ Past and Present 258 (2023) 3-43. Click here to read this article.
Byzantium & Friends is hosted by Anthony Kaldellis, a Professor at the University of Chicago. You can follow him on his personal website.
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Top Image: Workers putting up clothes for drying. Roman fresco from the fullonica (fuller’s shop) of Veranius Hypsaeus in Pompeii. Museo Archeologico Nazionale (Naples) – Wikimedia Commons
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