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