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