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

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 fr, it, en

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