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