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