Proceedings of the Plenary Sessions
The 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies
open access | peer reviewed
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edited by
- Emiliano Fiori - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email
- Michele Trizio - Università degli Studi di Bari «Aldo Moro», Italia - email
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 Tales • Culture of the collection • Monasteries • texts • Foundation Stories • Epigraphy • Law history • Distribution patterns • Literature • Anthropology • Reception • Healthscape • Transitional period • History of sciences • Gold • Ottomans • Trade hub • Foundation stories • Orestes • Epigrams • Conservation policies • Production site • tales • Asia • Mediterranean • Metalwork • Studies • laudes • Adaptations • Roman administration • interaction • Spatial analysis • English Mandate • Placemaking • History of climate and society • Adrianople • Interactions with other cultures • Edirne • island • Ecclesiastical architecture • dynasties • Iceland • Imperial Roman period • Urban archaeology • Persian • Byzantine archaeology • Ceramic • Alans • Geocommunication • Byzantine literature • basileus • Consilience • borderland/frontier • Anatolia • Byzantine trade • Research methodology (in Byzantine legal studies) • diplomacy • French mandate • Edward the Confessor • remote sensing • Byzantine age • Cities • Conflicts • Amorium • Iconographie • Interaction • Academic practices • Caucasus • Triumphal columns • Byzantine legal studies • Digital humanities • Residential architecture • Ceramic finds • Iconography • Byzantine-Islamic relations • Education • Balkans • Catalogue • Remote sensing • Metaphrasis • Silks • Turks • Production • Byzantine history • Head loading • Portable art • American university museums • Late antiquity • Complexity theory • Philology • Harald Hardrada • Constantinople • Byzantine law • Byzantine studies • French Mandate • Basileus • Builder • Analysis • Interdisciplines • Material culture networks • Chronicles • Environmental history • Constantinople, ecclesiastical architecture • Sociometry • Prosopography • quarries • Knowledge production • LiDAR • Tribute • Robert and Mildred Bliss • Sacred landscapes • Methodology • Health • gold • mercenaries • Dynasties • Geography • Early Medieval Mediterranean • Hadrian • Asia Minor • Crafts • Hybridity • Island • Viking • Sociology • Historical geography • Arabic • Syriac studies • Tradition • Roman infrastructure • Bases de données • Network analysis • Power relations • Description of cities • weaponry • Byzantine identity • Byzantine-awareness • Isauria • Sacred spaces • Theory • Urban rescue excavations • Textiles • Byzantine Constantinople • Prosopographie • Imperial Roman Period • Water jar • Survival of cities • Interdisciplinarity • English mandate • Anglo-Danish • Regressive engineering • Late Antiquity • Laudes • Elite • Embroidery • Architectural heritage • Diplomacy • History of Byzantine law • Sasanian empire • Globular amphora • Database • Translations • Cnut • Commerce • writing • Stratagems • Italian museums and churches • Constantinople, monasteries • Byzantine Studies • stratagems • Byzantium • Economic and non-economic exchange • Climate history • builder • Red slip • Eastern Roman Empire • Mercenaries • Royall Tyler • consilience • Gifts • Plunder • Tabula Imperii Byzantini (TIB) • American University Museums • Italy • Borderland/Frontier • Cultural history • Normans • Theories of exchange • elite • Space • Quarries • Epigraphie • Ragnvald • Writing • Sigillography • Global history • William the Conqueror • Turkish • Inscriptions • Concepts • Texts • Byzantine • Eastern Christianity • Progress • History of religions • Edgar • Weaponry • Sigillographie • Byzantine art • Vocabulary
Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-590-2 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-590-2 | Published Aug. 22, 2022 | Language en, fr, it
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