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

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 en, fr, it

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