Artificial Light in Medieval Churches

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74786-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 98, 403 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

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 case studies reveal 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: Vladimir Ivanovici, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Evan Freeman, Robert S. Nelson, Thomas E. A. Dale, Anna Adashinskaya, Daniela Mondini, Vera Henkelmann, Teresa Shawcross, Danijela Tešic Radovanovic, Branka Gugolj, Diego R. Fittipaldi, Giulia Arcidiacono, Jelena Bogdanovic, Debanjana Chatterjee, Aleksandar Cucakovic, Dušan Danilovic, Magdalena Dragovic, Leslie Forehand, Jacob Gasper, Charles Kerton, Marko Pejic, and Travis Yeager.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ivanovici, Vladimir

Sullivan, Alice Isabella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen Sakralbauten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

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.