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