Glass, Wax and Metal: Lighting Technologies in Late Antique, Byzantine and Medieval Times

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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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