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