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