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

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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