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