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

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 fr, en, it

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