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

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, fr, en

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