The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies

Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions

The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies

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

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