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