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