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- Description
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 365 pages) : chiefly illustrations (some color)
- Summary
- "Inside Christian churches, natural light has long been harnessed to underscore theological, symbolic, and ideological statements. In this volume, twenty-four international scholars with various specialties explore how the study of sunlight can reveal essential aspects of the design, decoration, and function of medieval sacred spaces. Themes covered include the interaction between patrons, advisors, architects, and artists, as well as local negotiations among competing traditions that yielded new visual and spatial constructs for which natural light served as a defining and unifying factor. The study of natural light in medieval churches reveals cultural relations, knowledge transfer patterns, processes of translation and adaptation, as well as experiential aspects of sacred spaces in the Middle Ages. Contributors are: Anna Adashinskaya, Jelena Bogdanović, Debanjana Chatterjee, Ljiljana Čavić, Aleksandar Čučaković, Dušan Danilović, Magdalena Dragović, Natalia Figueiras Pimentel, Leslie Forehand, Jacob Gasper, Vera Henkelmann, Fr. Gabriel-Dinu Herea, Vladimir Ivanovici, Charles Kerton, Jorge López Quiroga, Anastasija Martinenko, Andrea Mattiello, Rubén G. Mendoza, Marko Pejić, Iakovos Potamianos, Maria Shevelkina, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Travis Yeager, and Olga Yunak"--
- Series Statement
- East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 1872-8103 ; volume 88
- Uniform Title
- Natural light in Medieval Churches (Online)
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Illuminated by Divine Presence: Natural Light in the Katholikon at Dečani Monastery / Anna Adashinskaya -- Space and Light: Aesthetics of Light in the Byzantine Church / Iakovos Potamianos -- Canticle of the Sun: Archaeoastronomy and Solar Eucharistic Worship in the Millennial New World / Rubén G. Mendoza.
- ISBN
- 9789004527980
- LCCN
- 2022043520
- OCLC
- ssj0002739009
- Title
Natural light in Medieval Churches [electronic resource] / edited by Vladimir Ivanovici, Alice Isabella Sullivan.
- Imprint
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
- Series
East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 1872-8103 ; volume 88
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Added Author
Ivanovici, Vladimir.
Sullivan, Alice Isabella.
Licht aus dem Osten? Natural Light in Medieval Churches Between Byzantium and the West (Workshop) (2020 : Freie Universität Berlin)