02253nam a2200169Ia 4500008004100000020002800041041000800069050002300077100002800100245009500128260003700223300002700260490005000287505164000337650008901977999001702066230822s9999    xx            000 0 und d  a97890043685909004368590  aeng  aNA3010 b.S23 2018  aOpstall, Emilie M. Van  0aSacred Thresholds:bthe door to the sanctuary in late antiquity / cEmilie M. Van Opstall  aLeiden ; Boston : bBrill,c2018  axiii, 376 pb;c25 cm.  aReligions in the Graeco-Roman World Ser.v185  aart 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.  aDoors--Religious aspects.Thresholds (Doorsills)Senses and sensation in architecture.  c45607d45607