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