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