Research Catalog

Title

Natural light in Medieval churches / edited by Vladimir Ivanovici, Alice Isabella Sullivan.

Publication

• Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]
• ©2023

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Additional Authors

• Ivanovici, Vladimir
• Sullivan, Alice Isabella
• Licht aus dem Osten? Natural Light in Medieval Churches Between Byzantium and the West (Workshop), (2020, Freie Universität Berlin)

Description

xxiii, 365 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 25 cm.

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, 450-1450, 1872 8103 ; volume 88

Uniform Title

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; v. 88.

Subject

• Light in architecture > Congresses
• Daylighting > Europe > Congresses
• Light > Religious aspects > Christianity > Congresses
• Church architecture > Europe > Congresses
• Architecture, Medieval > Europe > Congresses
• Architecture, Medieval
• Church architecture
• Daylighting
• Light in architecture
• Light > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Light
• Europe

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Part I. Light, theology, and aesthetics. 1. Illuminated by divine presence: natural light in the Katholikon at Dečani Monastery / Anna Adashinskaya ; 2. Natural darkness and the transfiguration chruch on Il'ina Street in Novgorod (1378) / Olga Yunak ; 3. Transparency, color, and light at Ferapontov Monastery's Nativity of the Mother of God Church / Maria Shevelkina ; 4. The blessed sacrament shining in light: windowed niches in Medieval Livonian churches / Vera Henkelmann ; 5. Seeing beyond seeing: light and Theophanic contemplation at the Enkleistra of Neophytos, Cyprus / Maria Paschali and Dimitris Minasidis ; 6. Space and light: aesthetics of light in the Byzantine Church / Iakovos Potamianos -- Part 2. Lighting sacred spaces. 7. Light of the east in the west: natural light in the Monastic Rupestrian Complex of San Pedro de Rocas (Galicia) / Natalia Figueiras Pimentel and Jorge López Quiroga ; 8. Sun, stones, and saints: on the orientation of the Church of Saint'Ambrogio alla Rienna (SA) / Andrea Mattiello ; 9. Natural light in the Church of the Holy Cross at Pǎtrǎuţi Monastery / Vladimir Ivanovici, Alice Isabella Sullivan and Gabriel-Dinu Herea ; 10. Modeling the sunlight illumination of the Church at Studenica Monastery / Travis Yeager, Jelena Bogdanović, Leslie Forehand, Dušan Danilović, Magdalena Dragović, Debanjana Chatterjee, Jacob Gasper, Marko Pejić, Aleksandar Čučaković, Anastasija Martinenko and Charles Kerton ; 11. Architectural emptiness and natural light: the Church of the Virgin at Studenica Monastery / Ljiljana Čavić ; 12. Canticle of the sun: archaeoastronomy and solar eucharistic worship in the millennial new world / Rubén G. Mendoza.

Call Number

JFE 23-2367

ISBN

• 9789004527959
• 9004527958
• 9789004527980 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022043520

OCLC

1345278982

Title

Natural light in Medieval churches / edited by Vladimir Ivanovici, Alice Isabella Sullivan.

Publisher

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, 1872 8103 ; volume 88

East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; v. 88.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Ivanovici, Vladimir, editor, writer of introduction. Editor

Sullivan, Alice Isabella, writer of introduction, editor. Editor

Licht aus dem Osten? Natural Light in Medieval Churches Between Byzantium and the West (Workshop), (2020, Freie Universität Berlin)

Other Form:

Online version: Natural light in Medieval churches Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] 9789004527980 (DLC) 2022043521

Research Call Number

JFE 23-2367