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

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, it, fr

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