Sacred thresholds : the door to the sanctuary in late antiquity /

Sacred Thresholds. The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity offers a far-reaching account of boundaries within pagan and Christian sanctuaries: gateways in a precinct, outer doors of a temple or church, inner doors of a cella . The study of these liminal spaces within Late Antiquity - itself a ke...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Opstall, Emilie Marlène van (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.
Colección:Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, VOLUME 185
Temas:
To 1500
Doors > Religious aspects.
Senses and sensation in architecture.
Architecture and religion > History > To 1500.
Boundaries > Miscellanea.
Sens et sensations en architecture.
Frontières > Miscellanées.
RELIGION / Reference
Architecture and religion
Doors > Religious aspects
Senses and sensation in architecture
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part 1: Experiencing sacred thresholds. On the threshhold: Paul the Silentiary's Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia / Emilie M. van Opstall
  • Entering the baptistry: Spatial, identity and salvific transitions in fourth- and fifth-century baptismal liturgies / Juliette Day
  • From taboo to icon: The entrance to and the exit from the church in the first three Greek liturgical commentaries (ca. 500-730 CE) / Christian Boudignon
  • Bonus intra, melior exit!: 'Inside' and 'outside' at Greek incubation sanctuaries / Ildikó Csepregi.
  • Part 2: Symbolism and allegory of sanctuary doors. Sanctuary doors, vestibules and Adyta in the works of neoplatonic philosophers / Lucia M. Tissi
  • The paradise of St. Peters / Sible L. de Blaauw
  • Imagining the entrance to the afterlife: Peter as the gatekeeper of heaven in early Christianity / Roald Dijkstra.
  • Part 3: Messages in stone. 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) / Evelien J.J. Roels
  • Versus De Limine and In Limine: Displaying Greek paideia at the entrance of early Christian churches / Gianfranco Agosti
  • The door to the sanctuary from Paulinis of Nola to Gregory of Tours / Enduring characteristics and evolutions from the Theodosian to the Merovingian period / Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard.
  • Part 4: The Presence of the Divine. Filters of lights: Greek temple doors as portals of epiphany / Christina G. Williamson
  • The other door to the santuary: The apse and divine entry in the early Byzantine church / Brooke Shilling.

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