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 Cnut • Cities • Island • Ceramic finds • Geography • borderland/frontier • Economic and non-economic exchange • tales • History of religions • basileus • Arabic • Silks • Digital humanities • Law history • writing • Survival of cities • Ecclesiastical architecture • LiDAR • Byzantine Constantinople • Byzantine Studies • Geocommunication • Imperial Roman Period • Turkish • Globular amphora • Production site • Research methodology (in Byzantine legal studies) • Iconography • Edward the Confessor • Sacred landscapes • Studies • island • stratagems • Global history • Asia • diplomacy • Conservation policies • Byzantine legal studies • Chronicles • Epigraphy • Texts • Healthscape • Spatial analysis • Sasanian empire • American university museums • Urban archaeology • Complexity theory • Byzantine studies • Ragnvald • weaponry • Byzantine art • Anatolia • Isauria • Byzantine-awareness • Tradition • Analysis • Italy • Textiles • Metaphrasis • Anthropology • Gold • Imperial Roman period • Syriac studies • Bases de données • Laudes • Byzantium • Byzantine literature • Description of cities • Environmental history • Persian • French mandate • Theories of exchange • Weaponry • Adaptations • Orestes • Roman administration • Urban rescue excavations • consilience • Embroidery • Sigillographie • Epigraphie • Epigrams • Interactions with other cultures • Dynasties • Prosopographie • Water jar • quarries • Roman infrastructure • Byzantine archaeology • Foundation Stories • French Mandate • Mediterranean • Philology • Royall Tyler • Reception • Edgar • Turks • gold • Catalogue • Anglo-Danish • Progress • Cultural history • Education • Interaction • Residential architecture • Early Medieval Mediterranean • Regressive engineering • Portable art • Borderland/Frontier • Byzantine history • Adrianople • Iconographie • Viking • Byzantine trade • Robert and Mildred Bliss • Network analysis • Quarries • Power relations • Hybridity • Builder • Late Antiquity • Translations • Head loading • Concepts • Monasteries • Foundation stories • Climate history • Theory • Constantinople, monasteries • Asia Minor • Normans • Constantinople • Writing • remote sensing • Byzantine law • Caucasus • Ceramic • Ottomans • Late antiquity • English Mandate • Hadrian • History of climate and society • Constantinople, ecclesiastical architecture • Methodology • Alans • History of Byzantine law • Remote sensing • Sociology • Space • Placemaking • Prosopography • builder • Eastern Christianity • American University Museums • Academic practices • Byzantine identity • Interdisciplinarity • Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) • Literature • Distribution patterns • Tales • laudes • Italian museums and churches • elite • Stratagems • English mandate • Red slip • Crafts • Inscriptions • Amorium • Triumphal columns • Vocabulary • Commerce • Eastern Roman Empire • Knowledge production • Production • Interdisciplines • Conflicts • Edirne • Trade hub • Harald Hardrada • dynasties • Material culture networks • Iceland • Tribute • Mercenaries • Plunder • Architectural heritage • William the Conqueror • Culture of the collection • Byzantine age • Historical geography • Transitional period • mercenaries • Sacred spaces • Elite • Basileus • Byzantine • Byzantine-Islamic relations • Sociometry • Sigillography • Gifts • Health • interaction • Diplomacy • Consilience • Metalwork • Balkans • texts • History of sciences • Database
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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