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