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