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