Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 -- 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 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, Dušan Danilović, Thomas E. A. Dale, Magdalena Dragović, Diego R. Fittipaldi, Evan Freeman, Leslie Forehand, 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.

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