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 Globular amphora • Constantinople • Isauria • diplomacy • borderland/frontier • Production site • Arabic • Caucasus • Water jar • basileus • Cultural history • Mercenaries • Bases de données • Theories of exchange • Regressive engineering • Edward the Confessor • Prosopographie • Placemaking • Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) • gold • dynasties • island • Catalogue • Complexity theory • Adaptations • Remote sensing • Crafts • Cnut • Space • Roman infrastructure • Methodology • Residential architecture • Island • Byzantine literature • Edgar • Byzantine studies • Translations • Basileus • Gifts • stratagems • Elite • Sigillographie • Builder • Diplomacy • Production • Viking • Studies • Conservation policies • William the Conqueror • Network analysis • Byzantine Constantinople • Byzantine Studies • Power relations • Anthropology • Persian • Hybridity • Sacred spaces • Sacred landscapes • Epigrams • Eastern Christianity • Survival of cities • texts • Portable art • Head loading • Consilience • Syriac studies • Global history • Roman administration • Byzantine identity • Geocommunication • Triumphal columns • Education • Chronicles • Cities • American University Museums • Royall Tyler • Ceramic • Adrianople • Culture of the collection • Balkans • Turks • Iconographie • Law history • Byzantine art • History of Byzantine law • Prosopography • tales • Imperial Roman period • Tribute • Economic and non-economic exchange • Early Medieval Mediterranean • Health • Literature • Metalwork • Red slip • mercenaries • Climate history • Progress • Urban archaeology • quarries • History of climate and society • LiDAR • Alans • Mediterranean • elite • History of sciences • consilience • Research methodology (in Byzantine legal studies) • Late Antiquity • Byzantine-Islamic relations • Late antiquity • Analysis • Weaponry • Dynasties • French mandate • Iceland • Epigraphy • Spatial analysis • Borderland/Frontier • Texts • Transitional period • Healthscape • Metaphrasis • Philology • Byzantine archaeology • Italian museums and churches • Edirne • Iconography • Sasanian empire • Description of cities • Asia Minor • interaction • Sigillography • Ceramic finds • Tradition • English Mandate • weaponry • Concepts • Byzantine trade • Robert and Mildred Bliss • American university museums • Byzantium • Material culture networks • Quarries • Anglo-Danish • Byzantine age • writing • Knowledge production • Sociology • Geography • Database • Orestes • Amorium • English mandate • builder • Byzantine law • Laudes • Foundation Stories • Interdisciplines • Sociometry • Imperial Roman Period • Epigraphie • Urban rescue excavations • Writing • Conflicts • Harald Hardrada • Eastern Roman Empire • Byzantine-awareness • Ecclesiastical architecture • Distribution patterns • Interdisciplinarity • Theory • Turkish • laudes • Ragnvald • Byzantine • Stratagems • Asia • Commerce • Digital humanities • Trade hub • Anatolia • Embroidery • Environmental history • French Mandate • Interaction • Academic practices • remote sensing • Textiles • Reception • Tales • Byzantine legal studies • Hadrian • Gold • Architectural heritage • Historical geography • Monasteries • Vocabulary • History of religions • Byzantine history • Constantinople, monasteries • Ottomans • Constantinople, ecclesiastical architecture • Inscriptions • Silks • Plunder • Interactions with other cultures • Foundation stories • Italy • Normans
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-590-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-590-2 | Published Aug. 22, 2022 | Language fr, en, it
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