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

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, fr, it

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