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

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, it, en

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