\[ **up: [[Civilisation and culture--Ancient]] | [[Civilisation and culture--Classical]] | [[Civilisation and culture--Ancient--Roman]] | [[British Isles]]** ] --- # Romano-British civilisation and culture ## Everyday life ### Women [[Very little is known about the Romano-British women who lived in England prior the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons; most of what we do 'know' is based on extrapolation.]][^1] [[Very little is known about the Romano-British women who lived in England prior the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons; most of what we do 'know' is based on extrapolation.|“The villas and cities that are excavated in this country do not differ greatly from the cities and villas in other parts of the Roman Empire, and the average woman’s life was perhaps dictated more by her social class than either her ethnic origins or the part of that Empire she lived in.”]][^2] Extrapolation from Roman culture probably says more about the fashion in Rome than local Romano-British women; likewise, extrapolating from earlier Celtic material is just as dicey — and generalisations from some from the one and some from the other “would be chancy indeed.”[^3] [^1]: Christine Fell, *[[Fell, Clark & Williams. 'Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of 1066',|Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of 1066]]* (Colonnade, 1984), p. 22. [^2]: Christine Fell, *[[Fell, Clark & Williams. 'Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of 1066',|Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of 1066]]* (Colonnade, 1984), p. 22. [^3]: Christine Fell, *[[Fell, Clark & Williams. 'Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of 1066',|Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of 1066]]* (Colonnade, 1984), p. 22.