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