Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions
The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Emiliano Fiori - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Michele Trizio - Università degli Studi di Bari «Aldo Moro», Italia - email
Abstract
The present volume collects most of the contributions to the plenary sessions held at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, and incisively reflects the ever increasing broadening of the very concept of ‘Byzantine Studies’. Indeed, a particularly salient characteristic of the papers presented here is their strong focus on interdisciplinarity and their breadth of scope, both in terms of methodology and content. The cross-pollination between different fields of Byzantine Studies is also a major point of the volume. Archaeology and art history have pride of place; it is especially in archaeological papers that one can grasp the vital importance of the interaction with the so-called hard sciences and with new technologies for contemporary research. This relevance of science and technology for archaeology, however, also applies to, and have significant repercussions in, historical studies, where – for example – the study of climate change or the application of specific software to network studies are producing a major renewal of knowledge. In more traditional subject fields, like literary, political, and intellectual history, the contributions to the present volume offer some important reflections on the connection between Byzantium and other cultures and peoples through the intermediary of texts, stories, diplomacy, trade, and war.
Keywords Health • Sociology • stratagems • Textiles • Imperial Roman Period • Environmental history • Sigillography • Ceramic finds • Edward the Confessor • French Mandate • Turkish • Urban rescue excavations • Iconography • Triumphal columns • Elite • diplomacy • Bases de données • Eastern Roman Empire • Digital humanities • Byzantine archaeology • Economic and non-economic exchange • interaction • Weaponry • Imperial Roman period • Tales • Cities • History of sciences • Tribute • Epigraphie • Constantinople, monasteries • American university museums • French mandate • Sociometry • Dynasties • Red slip • Ceramic • mercenaries • Historical geography • Diplomacy • History of religions • builder • William the Conqueror • Sacred landscapes • Byzantine art • Alans • Trade hub • Distribution patterns • Philology • Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) • Interaction • Complexity theory • Writing • Network analysis • Cnut • Consilience • Sasanian empire • Edgar • Education • Foundation Stories • Globular amphora • Architectural heritage • English Mandate • Harald Hardrada • Byzantine Studies • Healthscape • Orestes • Ottomans • Texts • Anglo-Danish • Literature • weaponry • basileus • remote sensing • LiDAR • Iceland • Syriac studies • Epigrams • dynasties • Embroidery • Byzantine-Islamic relations • Mediterranean • Power relations • Normans • Conflicts • Borderland/Frontier • History of Byzantine law • Interdisciplines • Late antiquity • Cultural history • quarries • borderland/frontier • Portable art • Commerce • Regressive engineering • Crafts • History of climate and society • Progress • Research methodology (in Byzantine legal studies) • Foundation stories • Caucasus • Isauria • Laudes • Byzantine history • Geocommunication • Gold • Persian • Turks • Asia Minor • Byzantine trade • Global history • Byzantine • Stratagems • Balkans • Ecclesiastical architecture • Late Antiquity • Reception • Island • Byzantine identity • Byzantine studies • Database • Interdisciplinarity • Remote sensing • Survival of cities • island • American University Museums • Constantinople • Roman administration • laudes • Anthropology • Head loading • Roman infrastructure • gold • Metaphrasis • Transitional period • Arabic • Material culture networks • Plunder • Byzantine legal studies • Residential architecture • English mandate • Metalwork • writing • Basileus • Sigillographie • Methodology • Byzantine Constantinople • Edirne • tales • Academic practices • Concepts • Royall Tyler • Amorium • consilience • Interactions with other cultures • Water jar • Italian museums and churches • Robert and Mildred Bliss • Adaptations • Description of cities • Conservation policies • Translations • Sacred spaces • Byzantine-awareness • Studies • Analysis • Chronicles • Vocabulary • Byzantine literature • Constantinople, ecclesiastical architecture • Theories of exchange • Monasteries • Theory • Viking • Gifts • Prosopography • Hadrian • Production site • Knowledge production • Tradition • Hybridity • Epigraphy • Adrianople • Byzantium • Ragnvald • Placemaking • Byzantine law • Italy • Silks • Iconographie • Byzantine age • Asia • Production • Builder • Catalogue • Culture of the collection • Climate history • elite • Early Medieval Mediterranean • Space • Spatial analysis • Law history • Geography • Mercenaries • Quarries • texts • Prosopographie • Anatolia • Eastern Christianity • Urban archaeology • Inscriptions
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-590-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-590-2 | Published Aug. 22, 2022 | Language it, en, fr
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