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