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