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

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 | Published Aug. 22, 2022 | Language it, fr, en

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