Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, c.3001500 AD

Profound cultural change defined the Byzantine world. For centuries after its embrace of Christianity, exchanges of ideas, objects, peoples and identities continued to flow across an empire that found itself located at the crossroads of so many other worlds. This book brings together a selection of important contributions to the study of cross-cultural exchange in the Byzantine world in its largest geographic and temporal sense. It employs an interdisciplinary and comparative approach, presenting papers first given by graduate and early career academic researchers from around the world at the XVII International Graduate Conference of the Oxford University Byzantine Society, held on 27 and 28 February 2015. Le monde byzantin se caractrise par de profondes mutations culturelles. Durant les sicles suivant l'adoption du christianisme, la diffusion des ides, la circulation des objets, les mouvements des peuples et le dialogue entre les identits nont pas cess de mtamorphoser cet empire lui-mme situ au carrefour dun grand nombre dautres civilisations. Cet ouvrage rassemble plusieurs contributions soigneusement choisies et constitue un apport majeur l'tude des changes culturels dans le monde byzantin dans un cadre gographique et temporel large. Son approche interdisciplinaire et comparative prsente des interventions indites dtudiants et de jeunes chercheurs venus du monde entier pour participer la dix-septime confrence internationale de lOxford University Byzantine Society qui sest tenue les 27 et 28 fvrier 2015.