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

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 | Pubblicato 22 Agosto 2022 | Lingua en, fr, it

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