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