This book traces the development of domestic rituals in the Eastern Roman Empire from the fourth through the eleventh centuries CE, arguing that the home was a primary and influential site of ritual praxis. Challenging the scholarly tendency to privilege ecclesiastical and monastic spaces, this book focuses on the home, a space largely administered by women, as a legitimate ritual sphere. The home was not merely in conversation with official religious life but also served as a driver of ritual innovation. This study finds that a deep integration of religion into daily life, reminiscent of the Graeco-Roman model, persisted and flourished within the domestic setting.

Katrina Rosie received her Ph.D. in 2025 from Queens University, Canada.