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