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This colloquium aims to explore the private life of the Byzantines
in the eastern Mediterranean. Day to day activities, their physical
settings and material trappings, and the interaction of different
social groups engaged therein will be investigated. Areas as diverse
as secular architecture, household furnishings, economic activities
within the domestic unit, the treatment of mental illness, and the
image of the slave in Byzantine society form the subjects of the
papers to be presented here. By providing a platform for examining
new documentation as well as for looking afresh at well known material,
we hope to contribute to a synthetic image of the Byzantine habitat.
ABOVE: Mount Athos, Vatopedi Monastery, katholikon,
The Ladder of St. John Climax, detail (1312).
RIGHT: Jerusalem, Patriarchal Library, ms. Taphou 5 (Book of
Job), fol. 234b, Women spinning and weaving (late 13th century).
BELOW: New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ivory panel
from casket, Adam and Eve at the forge (10th or 11th century).
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