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