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Vinony's link graph records 461 inbound references to Byzantine studies, and connects out to Byzantine Empire, economy of the Byzantine Empire and Mystras.
It is catalogued under topics including Asian studies, Byzantine studies and European studies.
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The opening session of the IV International Congress of Byzantine Studies in the Aula of the University of Sofia, 9 November 1934
Byzantine studies is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the history, culture, demography, dress, religion/theology, art, literature/epigraphy, music, science, economy, coinage and politics of the Eastern Roman Empire. The German Humanist, Hieronymus Wolf is often credited with applying the name "Byzantine" to describe the Eastern Roman Empire first, which continued after the Western Roman Empire collapsed in 476 AD. About 100 years after the final conquest of Constantinople by the Ottomans, Wolf began to collect, edit, and translate the writings of Byzantine philosophers. Other 16th-century humanists introduced Byzantine studies to Holland and Italy. The subject may also be called Byzantinology or Byzantology, although these terms are usually found in English translations of original non-English sources. A scholar of Byzantine studies is called a Byzantinist.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Byzantine studies” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.