Sacred Thresholds: the Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity
Sacred Thresholds: the Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity
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ISBN No.: 9789004368590
Pages: 278
Year: 201807
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 245.00
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"The volume has many strengths, not least its examination of a wide variety of sources, with well-known authors such as Gregory of Tours being used alongside lesser known epigrams (.) this is a nicely produced, readable, and interesting collection of essays which researchers interested in concepts of space, transition, and experience, especially in religious contexts, will find useful." - Michael Wuk, University of Nottingham , in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.05.09 "Sacred Thresholds is a welcome addition to studies of architectural framing devices, spaces of initiation, and sensory perception in ritual environments (.) an excellent contribution to the burgeoning field of liminality studies." - Nathan S. Dennis, University of San Fransisco , in: Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 78.


4 (2019) "Insgesamt ist der von van Opstall herausgegebene Sammelband, der durch ein Abbildungsverzeichnis (VII-X), einen Überblick zu den Autoren (XI-XIII), einen Index (371-376) und wenige, dafür aber gut ausgewählte Abbildungen in den einzelnen Beiträgen abgerundet wird, eine sehr willkommene Ergänzung zu verschiedenen Aspekten der Liminalität in der Spätantike. (.) Dennoch wird van Opstalls Publikation vor allem dank einiger ausgezeichneter Einzelstudien für zukünftige Forschungen auf diesem Gebiet unerlässlich sein." - Sabine Feist, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , in: Plekos 22, 2020 "(.) this is an extremely interesting collection of essays that can appeal to art historians, philologists and scholars in religious studies. It fulfills its promise to consider doors and thresholds from different points of view, revealing one important aspect in the dynamics of sacred spaces from ancient Greek temples to early Byzantine churches." - Beatrice Caseau, Université Paris-Sorbonne , in: Arys 18, 2020.


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