Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; General Introduction; Part 1 Experiencing Sacred Thresholds; Chapter 1 On the Threshold Paul the Silentiary's Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia; Chapter 2 Entering the Baptistery Spatial, Identity and Salvific Transitions in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Baptismal Liturgies; Chapter 3 From Taboo to Icon The Entrance to and the Exit from the Church in the First Three Greek Liturgical Commentaries (ca 500-730 CE); Chapter 4 Bonus Intra, Melior Exi! 'Inside' and 'Outside' at Greek Incubation Sanctuaries; Part 2 Symbolism and Allegory 0f Sanctuary Doors.
  • Chapter 5 Sanctuary Doors, Vestibules and Adyta in the Works of Neoplatonic PhilosophersChapter 6 The Paradise of Saint Peter's; Chapter 7 Imagining the Entrance to the Afterlife Peter as the Gatekeeper of Heaven in Early Christianity; Part 3 Messages in Stone; Chapter 8 The Queen of Inscriptions Contextualized The Presence of Civic Inscriptions in the pronaos of Ancient Temples in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (Fourth Century BCE-Second Century CE); Chapter 9 Versus De Limine and In Limine Displaying Greek paideia at the Entrance of Early Christian Churches.
  • Chapter 10 The Door to the Sanctuary from Paulinus of Nola to Gregory of Tours Enduring Characteristics and Evolutions from the Theodosian to the Merovingian PeriodPart 4 The Presence of the Divine; Chapter 11 Filters of Light Greek Temple Doors as Portals of Epiphany; Chapter 12 The Other Door to the Sanctuary The Apse and Divine Entry in the Early Byzantine Church; General Index.