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