The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies

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.

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

Thema codes NHDJ • NKD • AGA • 1QBCB • 3K

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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