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 caract rise par de profondes mutations culturelles. Durant les si cles suivant l'adoption du christianisme, la diffusion des id es, la circulation des objets, les mouvements des peuples et le dialogue entre les identit s n'ont pas cess de m tamorphoser cet empire lui-m me situ au carrefour d'un grand nombre d'autres 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 g ographique et temporel large. Son approche interdisciplinaire et comparative pr sente des interventions in dites d' tudiants et de jeunes chercheurs venus du monde entier pour participer la dix-septi me conf rence internationale de l'Oxford University Byzantine Society qui s'est tenue les 27 et 28 f vrier 2015.


Kirsty Stewart recently obtained her DPhil from the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Marc Lauxtermann. Her current research focuses on ecocriticism and theological naturalism.James Moreton Wakeley read Classics at Cambridge before moving to study Later Roman History at Lincoln College, Oxford. He is now working on a DPhil in Early Islamic History and Historiography.