Sacred Thresholds: the door to the sanctuary in late antiquity /
Opstall, Emilie M. Van
Sacred Thresholds: the door to the sanctuary in late antiquity / Emilie M. Van Opstall - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 - xiii, 376 p ; 25 cm. - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Ser. 185 .
art 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.
97890043685909004368590
Doors--Religious aspects.Thresholds (Doorsills)Senses and sensation in architecture.
NA3010 / .S23 2018
Sacred Thresholds: the door to the sanctuary in late antiquity / Emilie M. Van Opstall - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 - xiii, 376 p ; 25 cm. - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Ser. 185 .
art 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.
97890043685909004368590
Doors--Religious aspects.Thresholds (Doorsills)Senses and sensation in architecture.
NA3010 / .S23 2018