[Asec] CFP: Artificial Light in Medieval Churches between Byzantium and the West

[Alice Isabella Sullivan]

*[Please share, and apologies for cross-posting]*

Dear colleagues,

Please find below, and attached, a CFP for a virtual workshop on
"Artificial Light in Medieval Churches between Byzantium and the West"
(9-10 February 2023). The deadline for submissions is *1 September 2022. *

Thank you,
Alice Sullivan & Vladimir Ivanovici

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*CALL FOR PAPERS*





*Artificial Light in Medieval Churches between Byzantium and the West *



Online workshop | Tufts University & Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio
| 9-10 February 2023





Organizers:

*Alice Isabella Sullivan*, PhD, Tufts University

*Vladimir Ivanovici*, PhD, University of Vienna | Accademia di architettura
di Mendrisio



Throughout the Middle Ages, artificial illumination was used to draw
attention to and enhance the symbolism of certain areas, objects, and
persons inside Christian sacred spaces. The strategies usually found in
Latin and Byzantine churches have been analyzed in recent decades. However,
the cultures that developed at the crossroads of the Latin, Greek, and
Slavic spheres, particularly in regions of the Balkan Peninsula and the
Carpathian Mountains, have received less scholarly attention. The uses of
artificial light in churches were likely shaped by aspects such as
inherited practices, the imitation of other societies, as well as by local
climatic, economic, and theological parameters.



Following a similar workshop that focused on natural light, which showed
how uses of sunlight reveal patterns of knowledge transfer and cultural
interaction between Byzantium, the West, and the Slavic world throughout
the Middle Ages, this workshop invites papers on the economy of *artificial
light *in medieval churches across Eastern Europe, from the Balkans to the
Baltic Sea. Whether innovative or inspired by the more established
traditions on the margins of the Mediterranean, local customs are to be
examined in order to understand how artificial light was used in
ecclesiastical spaces, and how it brought together the architecture,
decoration, objects, and rituals.



Following the workshop, select papers will be revised and published in a
volume that will complement the edited collection that resulted from the
workshop on natural light, which is currently in print with Brill.



Proposals for 20-min. papers in English should include the following: an
abstract (300 words max.) and a brief CV (2 pages max.). Proposals should
be emailed to the organizers of the workshop at alice.sullivan[at]tufts.edu
and vladimir.ivanovici[at]usi.ch by *1 September 2022*. Please include in
the email subject line *“Artificial Light Proposal*.*”*
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