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