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

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 en, it, fr

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