Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions
The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Emiliano Fiori - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Michele Trizio - Università degli Studi di Bari «Aldo Moro», Italia - email
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 Commerce • Concepts • tales • Analysis • Chronicles • Material culture networks • History of climate and society • Cnut • Healthscape • Philology • Anatolia • Sacred spaces • Silks • Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) • Theories of exchange • Imperial Roman Period • Hybridity • Portable art • Diplomacy • Elite • Transitional period • Epigraphie • Edgar • Urban rescue excavations • builder • Byzantine Constantinople • Culture of the collection • Turks • Weaponry • Geocommunication • Global history • Gifts • Iconography • Texts • Interaction • Vocabulary • Education • texts • Byzantine identity • Methodology • writing • Edward the Confessor • Complexity theory • Stratagems • island • Sasanian empire • mercenaries • Asia Minor • Viking • Mediterranean • Production site • Studies • Water jar • Royall Tyler • Sociology • Early Medieval Mediterranean • Prosopographie • Globular amphora • Theory • borderland/frontier • American University Museums • Alans • Database • Byzantine age • remote sensing • weaponry • Harald Hardrada • English Mandate • Robert and Mildred Bliss • Anglo-Danish • Turkish • Byzantine-Islamic relations • Eastern Christianity • English mandate • Late antiquity • Byzantium • Literature • Triumphal columns • Ceramic finds • Asia • Interdisciplines • Sigillographie • Orestes • Arabic • basileus • Edirne • Reception • Sociometry • Cultural history • Urban archaeology • consilience • LiDAR • Law history • Epigrams • Late Antiquity • Textiles • dynasties • Interdisciplinarity • Quarries • Health • elite • Head loading • Sacred landscapes • Inscriptions • Architectural heritage • Tales • Normans • Translations • Foundation stories • Spatial analysis • Economic and non-economic exchange • Epigraphy • Ragnvald • Borderland/Frontier • Byzantine legal studies • Byzantine trade • diplomacy • Imperial Roman period • Byzantine • Basileus • Power relations • Survival of cities • Environmental history • Crafts • William the Conqueror • Byzantine archaeology • Geography • French mandate • Byzantine-awareness • Ecclesiastical architecture • Mercenaries • quarries • Tribute • French Mandate • Red slip • Adaptations • Conflicts • Balkans • Metaphrasis • Space • stratagems • Metalwork • Plunder • Byzantine law • Distribution patterns • Eastern Roman Empire • History of Byzantine law • Roman infrastructure • Consilience • Isauria • Tradition • Anthropology • History of religions • Writing • Hadrian • Digital humanities • Caucasus • Italy • Ottomans • Constantinople, monasteries • Description of cities • Byzantine art • interaction • History of sciences • Bases de données • Adrianople • Research methodology (in Byzantine legal studies) • Constantinople, ecclesiastical architecture • Trade hub • Monasteries • Catalogue • Constantinople • Persian • Prosopography • Embroidery • Residential architecture • Production • American university museums • Network analysis • Dynasties • Iceland • Regressive engineering • Byzantine history • Foundation Stories • Historical geography • Builder • Progress • Island • Byzantine literature • Iconographie • Amorium • Syriac studies • Remote sensing • Climate history • Laudes • Interactions with other cultures • Ceramic • Academic practices • Knowledge production • laudes • Byzantine Studies • Byzantine studies • Conservation policies • Roman administration • Placemaking • Cities • Italian museums and churches • Sigillography • gold • Gold
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-590-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-590-2 | Published Aug. 22, 2022 | Language it, fr, en
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