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

Sacred thresholds : : the door to the sanctuary in late antiquity / / edited by Emilie M. van Opstall.

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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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Opstall, Emilie Marlène van.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 185.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 376 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • List of Figures
  • List of Contributors
  • General Introduction
  • Experiencing Sacred Thresholds
  • On the Threshold
  • Entering the Baptistery / Juliette Day
  • From Taboo to Icon / Christian Boudignon
  • Bonus Intra, Melior Exi! / Ildikó Csepregi
  • Symbolism and Allegory 0f Sanctuary Doors
  • Sanctuary Doors, Vestibules and Adyta in the Works of Neoplatonic Philosophers / Lucia M. Tissi
  • The Paradise of Saint Peter’s / Sible L. de Blaauw
  • Imagining the Entrance to the Afterlife / Roald Dijkstra
  • Messages in Stone
  • The Queen of Inscriptions Contextualized / Evelien J.J. Roels
  • Versus De Limine and In Limine / Gianfranco Agosti
  • The Door to the Sanctuary from Paulinus of Nola to Gregory of Tours / Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard
  • The Presence of the Divine
  • Filters of Light / Christina G. Williamson
  • The Other Door to the Sanctuary / Brooke Shilling
  • Back Matter
  • General Index.

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