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

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 it, en, fr

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