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Artificial Light in Medieval Churches
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This volume examines the economy of artificial light in medieval churches across Eastern Europe, the Mediterranean region, and the broader medieval spheres. Whether innovative or inspired by the more established Latin and Byzantine traditions, the chapters explore local customs in order to understand how artificial light was used in ecclesiastical spaces, and how it brought together aspects of the architecture, decoration, objects, and rituals, while implicating the celebrants and the faithful gathered within the spaces. This volume complements the publication Natural Light in Medieval Churches (Brill, 2023).
Contributors are: Anna Adashinskaya, Giulia Arcidiacono, Jelena Bogdanović, Debanjana Chatterjee, Aleksandar Čučaković, Thomas E. A. Dale, Dušan Danilović, Magdalena Dragović, Diego R. Fittipaldi, Leslie Forehand, Evan Freeman, Jacob Gasper, Branka Gugolj, Vera Henkelmann, Vladimir Ivanovici, Charles Kerton, Daniela Mondini, Robert S. Nelson, Marko Pejić, Teresa Shawcross, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Danijela Tešić Radovanović, and Travis Yeager.
Contributors are: Anna Adashinskaya, Giulia Arcidiacono, Jelena Bogdanović, Debanjana Chatterjee, Aleksandar Čučaković, Thomas E. A. Dale, Dušan Danilović, Magdalena Dragović, Diego R. Fittipaldi, Leslie Forehand, Evan Freeman, Jacob Gasper, Branka Gugolj, Vera Henkelmann, Vladimir Ivanovici, Charles Kerton, Daniela Mondini, Robert S. Nelson, Marko Pejić, Teresa Shawcross, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Danijela Tešić Radovanović, and Travis Yeager.
Vladimir Ivanovici, PhD, is Lecturer at the Mendrisio Academy of Architecture–University of Lugano. He researches strategies developed by ancient and medieval societies to flesh out the divine, paying particular attention to light and the human body as theophanic media.
Alice Isabella Sullivan, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University. She specializes in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres.
Alice Isabella Sullivan, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University. She specializes in the artistic production of Eastern Europe and the Byzantine-Slavic cultural spheres.
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Vladimir Ivanovici and Alice Isabella Sullivan
1 Icons and the Science of Low Light
Robert S. Nelson
2 Artificial Light and Monumental Art in the Rock-Cut New Church at Tokalı Kilise
Evan Freeman
3 Artificial and Natural Light at San Marco in Venice
Thomas E. A. Dale
4 Lighting Equipment, Ritual, and the Iconography of Light at Dečani Monastery
Anna Adashinskaya
5 Observations on the Productivity of Romanesque ‘Darkness’: Windows and Light in Religious Architecture South of the Alps
Daniela Mondini
6 Artificial Light, Architecture, Furnishings, and Ritual in the Medieval Churches of Old Livonia
Vera Henkelmann
7 The Influence of the Jerusalemite Miracle of Holy Light on Medieval Sacred Space
Teresa Shawcross
8 Light in Byzantine Typika: between Textual and Material Sources
Danijela Tešić Radovanović and Branka Gugolj
9 Lighting Instruments in Byzantine Monastic Typika: a Contribution to the Study of Material Culture through Written Sources
Diego R. Fittipaldi
10 Lighting Mediterranean Routes: Byzantine Lighting Devices in Sicily
Giulia Arcidiacono
11 The Illumination of the Studenica Church during Evening Services
Jelena Bogdanović, Leslie Forehand, Dušan Danilović, Magdalena Dragović, Jacob Gasper, Travis Yeager, Debanjana Chatterjee, Marko Pejić, Aleksandar Čučaković and Charles Kerton
Conclusion: beyond Artificial Light
Glossary of Key Greek Terms
Index
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Vladimir Ivanovici and Alice Isabella Sullivan
1 Icons and the Science of Low Light
Robert S. Nelson
part 1: Artificial Lights in Context
2 Artificial Light and Monumental Art in the Rock-Cut New Church at Tokalı Kilise
Evan Freeman
3 Artificial and Natural Light at San Marco in Venice
Thomas E. A. Dale
4 Lighting Equipment, Ritual, and the Iconography of Light at Dečani Monastery
Anna Adashinskaya
5 Observations on the Productivity of Romanesque ‘Darkness’: Windows and Light in Religious Architecture South of the Alps
Daniela Mondini
6 Artificial Light, Architecture, Furnishings, and Ritual in the Medieval Churches of Old Livonia
Vera Henkelmann
part 2: Lighting Instruments and Sources
7 The Influence of the Jerusalemite Miracle of Holy Light on Medieval Sacred Space
Teresa Shawcross
8 Light in Byzantine Typika: between Textual and Material Sources
Danijela Tešić Radovanović and Branka Gugolj
9 Lighting Instruments in Byzantine Monastic Typika: a Contribution to the Study of Material Culture through Written Sources
Diego R. Fittipaldi
10 Lighting Mediterranean Routes: Byzantine Lighting Devices in Sicily
Giulia Arcidiacono
part 3: Modeling Light
11 The Illumination of the Studenica Church during Evening Services
Jelena Bogdanović, Leslie Forehand, Dušan Danilović, Magdalena Dragović, Jacob Gasper, Travis Yeager, Debanjana Chatterjee, Marko Pejić, Aleksandar Čučaković and Charles Kerton
Conclusion: beyond Artificial Light
Glossary of Key Greek Terms
Index
This edited volume focuses on the study of artificial illumination in medieval churches relative to visual, artistic, spatial, ritualistic, symbolic, and scientific considerations.