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

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, en, it

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