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

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, en, it

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