Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions
The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies
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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.
French mandate • Plunder • Sacred spaces • Builder • Prosopography • Byzantine age • Byzantine Studies • Geography • Byzantine archaeology • Material culture networks • Tales • Urban rescue excavations • Edgar • Portable art • Sigillography • laudes • tales • Research methodology (in Byzantine legal studies) • Methodology • Ecclesiastical architecture • Health • Cities • Byzantine literature • Urban archaeology • Ceramic • Edward the Confessor • Spatial analysis • Progress • Turks • Catalogue • Conservation policies • Constantinople, ecclesiastical architecture • builder • Inscriptions • Red slip • Epigraphie • Normans • Climate history • remote sensing • texts • Edirne • Isauria • consilience • Island • Alans • Mercenaries • Syriac studies • Crafts • Vocabulary • Mediterranean • Database • Late Antiquity • Historical geography • Culture of the collection • Sociometry • Ceramic finds • Law history • Water jar • Byzantine Constantinople • Academic practices • Interdisciplines • Eastern Christianity • Byzantine studies • Turkish • Interactions with other cultures • Production site • Adaptations • Silks • Asia Minor • Byzantine • Late antiquity • Triumphal columns • quarries • Sigillographie • Theory • diplomacy • Imperial Roman Period • Production • Geocommunication • Knowledge production • Remote sensing • Description of cities • Robert and Mildred Bliss • mercenaries • Elite • borderland/frontier • American University Museums • Laudes • Italy • Epigrams • Space • Distribution patterns • Basileus • History of sciences • Head loading • Textiles • Embroidery • Quarries • Roman infrastructure • Byzantine identity • Cultural history • Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) • Byzantine-Islamic relations • Global history • Writing • Philology • Architectural heritage • writing • Residential architecture • Analysis • Monasteries • Digital humanities • Adrianople • Cnut • Gifts • Byzantine-awareness • Borderland/Frontier • Byzantine art • basileus • weaponry • Byzantium • gold • Texts • Italian museums and churches • Byzantine history • Anthropology • Roman administration • History of Byzantine law • Orestes • interaction • Byzantine law • Tradition • William the Conqueror • Sociology • Studies • Prosopographie • Gold • Constantinople, monasteries • History of climate and society • Hadrian • Concepts • Hybridity • Conflicts • Viking • Reception • Economic and non-economic exchange • Power relations • Consilience • Bases de données • Stratagems • Environmental history • Transitional period • Epigraphy • Diplomacy • Royall Tyler • Caucasus • Byzantine legal studies • Regressive engineering • French Mandate • Interaction • American university museums • Anatolia • History of religions • Metalwork • Education • dynasties • Globular amphora • Placemaking • Complexity theory • elite • Foundation Stories • Commerce • Ottomans • Sasanian empire • English Mandate • Persian • Survival of cities • Literature • Metaphrasis • Balkans • Trade hub • Weaponry • Translations • Network analysis • English mandate • LiDAR • Iceland • Theories of exchange • Eastern Roman Empire • stratagems • Iconography • Imperial Roman period • Amorium • Anglo-Danish • Byzantine trade • Healthscape • Early Medieval Mediterranean • Arabic • Asia • Harald Hardrada • Sacred landscapes • Constantinople • Dynasties • Ragnvald • island • Chronicles • Iconographie • Tribute • Interdisciplinarity • Foundation stories