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