Lighting in Early Byzantium

Laskarina Bouras

Maria Parani

Foreword by Susan A. Boyd

    • Foreword
    • Appreciation
    • Acknowledgments
    • Note to the Reader
    • Introduction
    • How Oil Lamps Work
    • Types of Lighting Devices
    • Symbolic Decoration
    • Uses of Lights
    • The Lighting System of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople
    • Catalogue
    • Abbreviations
    • Bibliography
    • Illustration Credits
  • Cover: Lighting in Early Byzantium

Laskarina Bouras was curator of the Byzantine Collection of the Benaki Museum in Athens.

Maria Parani is Lecturer in Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus.