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

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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