{"product_id":"natural-light-in-medieval-churches-9789004527959","title":"Natural Light in Medieval Churches","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInside 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, Gabriel-Dinu Herea, Vladimir Ivanovici, Charles Kerton, Jorge López Quiroga, Anastasija Martinenko, Andrea Mattiello, Rubén G. Mendoza, Dimitris Minasidis, Maria Paschali, Marko Pejić, Iakovos Potamianos, Maria Shevelkina, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Travis Yeager, and Olga Yunak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements   List of Figures   Notes on Contributors      Introduction    Vladimir Ivanovici and Alice Isabella Sullivan      Part 1: 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 Church 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 Sant’Ambrogio alla Rienna (SA)    Andrea Mattiello      9 Natural Light in the Church of the Holy Cross at Pătrăuți 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      Indexes","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210857111895,"sku":"9789004527959","price":139.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/natural-light-in-medieval-churches-9789004527959","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}