Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions
The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Emiliano Fiori - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Michele Trizio - Università degli Studi di Bari «Aldo Moro», Italia - email
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 Theories of exchange • Metaphrasis • Alans • History of Byzantine law • Sasanian empire • Head loading • Late antiquity • Byzantine Constantinople • Island • Interdisciplines • Mercenaries • Edgar • Historical geography • Turks • Asia Minor • Reception • Metalwork • Knowledge production • Embroidery • Anthropology • Constantinople, ecclesiastical architecture • Prosopography • Viking • borderland/frontier • weaponry • Health • Turkish • Remote sensing • Culture of the collection • Placemaking • Byzantine • Globular amphora • Constantinople, monasteries • Eastern Christianity • Description of cities • Cities • Iconography • Geocommunication • Conflicts • Spatial analysis • Concepts • Dynasties • Late Antiquity • Geography • Weaponry • elite • Harald Hardrada • Byzantine age • Complexity theory • Analysis • Borderland/Frontier • Water jar • Catalogue • History of climate and society • Byzantine archaeology • Foundation Stories • Consilience • Sociology • Texts • Chronicles • Plunder • Triumphal columns • Healthscape • English mandate • Production • Vocabulary • Ragnvald • Transitional period • Roman infrastructure • Byzantine-Islamic relations • Prosopographie • Sacred spaces • diplomacy • dynasties • Cultural history • Normans • Research methodology (in Byzantine legal studies) • Iceland • Methodology • French Mandate • Architectural heritage • Mediterranean • island • Studies • basileus • Database • Adrianople • Diplomacy • Textiles • Tradition • Robert and Mildred Bliss • Italian museums and churches • Builder • Byzantine history • French mandate • Imperial Roman Period • Law history • Tribute • Education • Ceramic • Material culture networks • Trade hub • Commerce • Epigraphie • Basileus • Royall Tyler • Byzantium • writing • Cnut • Bases de données • Hybridity • Roman administration • Urban rescue excavations • Arabic • History of religions • English Mandate • stratagems • Survival of cities • Climate history • interaction • Ottomans • Urban archaeology • Tales • remote sensing • American University Museums • Sacred landscapes • Translations • Amorium • Digital humanities • Iconographie • Theory • Byzantine trade • Ecclesiastical architecture • Byzantine-awareness • Epigraphy • Interaction • Distribution patterns • Byzantine studies • Byzantine Studies • tales • Edward the Confessor • Production site • Byzantine identity • Network analysis • mercenaries • Conservation policies • History of sciences • Residential architecture • Interactions with other cultures • Academic practices • Literature • Hadrian • quarries • American university museums • builder • Monasteries • Persian • Byzantine legal studies • Anglo-Danish • Quarries • Sigillographie • Sociometry • Isauria • Italy • Silks • Byzantine literature • Power relations • Laudes • Writing • Space • Interdisciplinarity • Progress • Stratagems • Adaptations • Global history • William the Conqueror • Anatolia • Asia • Imperial Roman period • Inscriptions • Constantinople • Eastern Roman Empire • Edirne • Sigillography • Epigrams • Orestes • Byzantine art • laudes • Environmental history • Economic and non-economic exchange • Regressive engineering • Balkans • Syriac studies • Crafts • gold • Red slip • Portable art • consilience • Gold • LiDAR • Elite • Foundation stories • Ceramic finds • Caucasus • Philology • Early Medieval Mediterranean • Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) • Byzantine law • Gifts • texts
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-590-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-590-2 | Published Aug. 22, 2022 | Language fr, it, en
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