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