Resources

Conferences and Workshops: 

“Artificial Light in Medieval Churches between Byzantium and the West,” virtual workshop co-organized by Alice Isabella Sullivan and Vladimir Ivanovici, 9 February 2023 (virtual). 

“Licht aus dem Osten? Natural Light in Medieval Churches between Byzantium and the West,” virtual workshop co-organized by Alice Isabella Sullivan and Vladimir Ivanovici, 26–27 November 2020 (virtual). 

Scholarly Presentations: 

Alice Isabella Sullivan and Vladimir Ivanovici, “Lighting Sacred Spaces in Byzantium and Beyond: The Case of Pătrăuți Monastery (1487),” Yale Lectures in Late Antique and Byzantine Art and Architecture, 2024-2025, Yale University. 13 December 2024 (virtual).

Alice Isabella Sullivan and Vladimir Ivanovici, “Integrated Views in Post-Byzantine Church Designs: The Case of Pătrăuți,” The 50th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Fordham University, New York. October 2024.

Vladimir Ivanovici and Alice Isabella Sullivan, “Evening Christophanies in Post-Byzantine Moldavia. The Case of Pătrăuți,” VII. Forum Kunst des Mittelalters – Licht: Kunst, Metaphysik und Naturwissenschaft im Mittelalter, Jena. 26 September 2024.

Alice Isabella Sullivan and Vladimir Ivanovici, “Sunlight Inszenierung in Medieval Churches and the Dynamics of Knowledge Transfer,” International conference: ‘Licht der Mittelalters’ Tagung / Light(s) in the Middle Ages, University of Music and Theater, Rostock. 2 September 2022 (virtual).

Bibliography (in progress): 

Bogdanović, Jelena. “Triconch Churches Sponsored by Serbian and Wallachian Nobility.” In Byzantium in Eastern European Visual Culture in the Late Middle Ages, edited by Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan, 167–199. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, vol. 65. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Bouchard, Jacques. “Cavalcada de la Pătrăuți. Inscripțiile picturii” [The Riders at Pătrăuți: The Painting’s Inscriptions]. Analele Putnei 1, no. 2 (2005): 13–14.

Cândea, Virgil. “Comori de artă din vremea lui Ștefan cel Mare.” In Ștean cel Mare și Sfânt: Atlet al Credinței Creștine. Putna: Sfânta Manastire Putna, 2004. 11-18 and 22 figures.

Caproșu, Ioan. “Biserica Sfînta Cruce din Pătrăuți.” In Monumente istorice bisericești din Mitropolia Moldovei și Sucevei (Iași, Mitropoliei Moldovei și Sucevei, 1974), 47.

Cojocaru, Monah Alexei. “Despre epitrahilul lui Ștefan cel Mare de la Pătrăuți: Noi date” [About the epitrachelion of Stephen the Great from Pătrăuți: New details]. Analele Putnei 14, no. 2 (2018): 211–228.

Dragnev, Emil. “Primul ciclu cunoscut al Arhanghelului Mihail din pictura murală a Moldovei medievale” [The first known cycle of the Archangel Michael in the mural painting of medieval Moldavia]. Analele Putnei 2, no. 2 (2006): 111–126.

Dragnev, Emil. “Programul iconografic al sistemului de boltire al naosului bisericii Înălțarea Cinstitei Cruci din Pătrăuți” [The iconographic programme of the dome in the nave of the Holy Cross Church at Pătrăuți]. In Retrospecții medievale: In honorem Professoris emeriti Ioan Caproșu, edited by Victor Spinei, Laurențiu Rădvan, and Arcadie M. Bodale, 164–204. Honoraria Vol. 10. Iași: Editura Universității “Alexandru Ioan Cuza,” 2014. 

Herea, Gabriel-Dinu. Pelerinaj în spațiul sacru bucovinean [Pilgrimage in Bukovina’s sacred spaces]. Cluj-Napoca: Patmos, 2010.

Herea, Gabriel-Dinu, and Petru Palamar. Pătrăuți. Suceava: Asociația Prietenii Bucovinei, 2011.

Herea, Gabriel-Dinu. Pătrăuți 1487—Monument UNESCO. Pătrăuți: Heruvim, 2015.

Herea, Gabriel-Dinu. Păzitorii pragului la Pătrăuți [The threshold protectors at Pătrăuți]. Bucharest: Meteor, 2018.

Herea, Gabriel-Dinu. “Alinieri solare simbolice în Moldova lui Ioan Ștefan cel Mare” [Symbolic solar alignments in the Moldavia of John Stephen the Great]. In Astronomia Străbunilor: arheoastronomie și etnoastronomie pe teritoriul României, ed. Marc Frîncu and Simina Frîncu, 193–220. Szeged: JatePress, 2019.

Herea, Gabriel-Dinu. The Symbolic Presence of the Sun at Pătrăuți. Translated by Alice Isabella Sullivan, with a foreword by Marc Frîncu, and an introduction by Vladimir Ivanovici. Timișoara: Editura Universității de Vest, 2020.

Herea, Gabriel-Dinu, Alice Isabella Sullivan, Vladimir Ivanovici. “The Church of the Holy Cross, Pătrăuți Monastery.” Mapping Eastern Europe, edited by Maria Alessia Rossi and Alice Isabella Sullivan, accessed June 3, 2023, https://mappingeasterneurope.princeton.edu.

Ivanovici, Vladimir, and Alice Isabella Sullivan, eds. Natural Light in Medieval Churches. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, vol. 88. Leiden: Brill, 2023. 

Ivanovici, Vladimir, and Alice Isabella Sullivan. “The Church of the Holy Cross, Pătrăuți Monastery.” Smarthistory, June 3, 2024, accessed June 14, 2024, https://smarthistory.org/holy-cross-church-patrauti-monastery/.

Ivanovici, Vladimir, Gabriel-Dinu Herea, Alice Isabella Sullivan. “Natural Light in the Church of the Holy Cross at Pătrăuți Monastery.” In Natural Light in Medieval Churches, edited by Vladimir Ivanovici and Alice Isabella Sullivan, 228–252. East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450, vol. 88. Leiden: Brill, 2023.

Sinigalia, Tereza. “Variations iconographiques: Constantin le Grand dans les peintures des églises de Pătrăuți et d’Arbore.” Anastasis: Research in Medieval Culture and Art 1 (2014): 5–21.

Sullivan, Alice Isabella, Gabriel-Dinu Herea, Vladimir Ivanovici. “Space, Image, Light: Toward an Understanding of Moldavian Architecture in the Fifteenth Century.” Gesta 60, no. 1 (2021): 81–100. 

Sullivan, Alice Isabella. The Eclectic Visual Culture of Medieval Moldavia. Leiden: Brill, 2023.

Sullivan, Alice Isabella. Europe’s Eastern Christian Frontier. York: ARC, 2024.

Székely, Maria Magdalena. “Ștefan cel Mare și cultul Sfintei Cruci” [Stephen the Great and the cult of the Holy Cross]. Analele Putnei 1, no. 1 (2005): 17–34.

Urcan, Tudor-Cătălin. Biserica “Sfânta Cruce” din Pătrăuţi: Geometrii ziditoare – o analiză geometrică a arhitecturii bisericii [The Holy Cross church in Pătrăuți: architectural geometries – a geometrical analysis of the architecture of the church]. Suceava: Karl A. Romstorfer, 2020.