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

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 it, en, fr

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