Presenting papers from two International Lychnological Association (ILA) Round Tables, this volume provides an extensive look at the technological development of lighting and lighting devices during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Western Europe and Byzantium. A time of major economic, geopolitical and social changes, there were also radical modifications in lighting devices, as terracotta mold-made lamps, very common throughout the earlier days of the Roman Empire, were replaced by devices that used glass containers to hold oil, candles made of beeswax, and metals to create a wide variety of holders for the newer glass lamp vessels and candles. Discussions included such diverse subjects as lighting devices used in medieval times in Scandinavian mines, the Byzantine use of light for long-distance signaling, castle illumination, polykandela designs and the spiritual significance of light.
Author(s): Ioannis Motsianos, Karen S. Garnett
Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 266
City: Oxford
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Title Page
Copyright page
Contents Page
Glass, Wax and Metal: Lighting Technologies in Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval Times: an Introduction
Karen S. Garnett and Ioannis Motsianos
A Highly Important ‘Half-volume’ as Acta of two Pioneer Congresses: some Explanations
Laurent Chrzanovski
Acknowledgements
An Overview of Late Antique Oil Lamps and Lighting Devices from Slovenia
Verena Perko
A Light is On in the Hut.Light and Lighting Equipment in Medieval Everyday Life
Thomas Bitterli
Medieval Lighting Devices from the Collection of the State Historical Museum of Russia
Svetlana Avdusina
Lumière et luminaires dans la vie religieuseen Occident au Moyen Âge
Catherine Vincent
Olaus Magnus the Goth on Fire, Light and Lighting Devices of the Northern People
Arja Karivieri
Mines Illuminated – Reflections upon Lighting in Medieval Mining
Lena Berg Nilsson
Lighthouses in the Tabula Peutingeriana and their Importance in Late Antiquity
Yvonne Seidel
Lighting Devices in Byzantium: Comparisons in Time and Space
Ioannis Motsianos
Lamps from the Excavation at 45 Basileus Heracleiou Street, Thessaloniki
Sofia Akrivopoulou, Periklis Slampeas and Paraskevi Leventeli
Lighting Artifacts from the Episcopal Complex at Louloudies Pierias
Evangelia Angelkou
Maria Cheimonopoulou
Bottoms Up! Bases and Handles on Attic KY Shop Lamps from Corinth’s Fountain of the Lamps
Karen S. Garnett
Athenian Lamps in the Early Byzantine Period – Export, Import and Imitation
Arja Karivieri
Aspects of Typology, Chronology and Iconography in the Regional Lamp Production in the Area of Present-day Israel (4th-7th centuries AD)
Renate Rosenthal-Heginbottom
Argos and its Lamps from the Late 4th to 7th Century AD
Lambrini Koutoussaki
A Three-Handled, Calyx-Shaped Glass Lamp from Thessaloniki and its Archaeological Context
Anastassios Ch. Antonaras
Some Remarks on a Category of Wheel-Made Lamps: A ‘Koinè’ in the 6th and the 7th Centuries AD?
Anastasia G. Yangaki
Lighting Devices found at Byzantine Amorium (Turkey)
Christopher S. Lightfoot
Church Lighting in Byzantine Cherson
Stanislav Ryzhov and Tatyana Yashaeva
Problems of Methodology in the Dating of Byzantine Polykandela: The Benaki Museum Examples
Mara Verykokou
Byzantine Metal Support Fittings for a Candlestick from the Monastery of Chilandar on Mount Athos
Paschalis Androudis
Ioannis Motsianos
Once again on the ‘Byzantine-Mediterranean Limoges’?
Mariela Inkova
Considerations on the Function and Usage of Pottery Lamps, Inspired by Finds from the Forum of Thessaloniki
Georgios Velenis and Stavros Zachariadis
Difficulties and Preconditions for the Utilitization of Glass in Lighting in Byzantium
Ioannis Motsianos
A Linen Wick from the Northern Church at Shivta, Israel
Naama Sukenik
Yotam Tepper
Some Thoughts About the Use and the Making of Beeswax Candles in Byzantium
Ioannis Motsianos
The Virtual Lighting of the Rotunda’s Mosaics
Pelli Mastora
Light and Lighting Devices in Wall Paintings of Byzantine Churches in Thessaloniki
Ioannis G. Iliades
A Beacon from the Castle of Kitros, Pieria, Greece
Efterpi Marki
Lessons of Modernity from the Past: Some Amazing Parallels Drawn from Antique and Medieval Lychnological Economics
Laurent Chrzanovski
Short Biographies
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