The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies

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.

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

Thema codes NHDJ • NKD • AGA • 1QBCB • 3K

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-590-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-590-2 | Pubblicato 22 Agosto 2022 | Lingua fr, en, it

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