Scientific Interests and Technological Innovation in Byzantium: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Abstract

This editorial begins by surveying the status of Byzantine science and technology as a field integral to the history of science as an academic discipline. After addressing the marginalization of Byzantine science and technology until quite recently, the editorial then proceeds to show that the origins of this field are not recent. Building on the trailblazers of the early twentieth century, a plethora of scholars have already contributed to the emergence of the field as a respectable and consequential pursuit. Much more should be done, however, and the articles here summarised inaugurate further avenues of research that, hopefully, will contribute to the recognition of this field by historians of science and scholars of Byzantium alike.