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Religions in the Graeco-Roman world,
0927-7633 ;
VOLUME 185
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Religions in the Graeco-Roman world.
0927-7633 ; VOLUME 185.
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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. |
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Part 2: Symbolism and allegory of sanctuary doors. Sanctuary doors, vestibules and Adyta in the works of neoplatonic philosophers / Lucia M. Tissi -- 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. |
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Part 3: Messages in stone. 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 -- 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. |
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Part 4: The Presence of the Divine. Filters of lights: Greek temple doors as portals of epiphany / Christina G. Williamson -- Other door to the santuary: The apse and divine entry in the early Byzantine church / Brooke Shilling. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Doors -- Religious aspects.
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Doors -- Religious aspects. |
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Senses and sensation in architecture.
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Senses and sensation in architecture. |
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Architecture and religion -- History -- To 1500.
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Architecture and religion. |
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History. |
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To 1500 |
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Boundaries -- Miscellanea.
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Boundaries. |
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Miscellanea. |
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Opstall, Emilie Marlène van, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sacred thresholds. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018 9789004368590 (DLC) 2018015943 |
| ISBN |
9789004369009 (electronic book) |
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9004369007 (electronic book) |
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9789004368590 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004368590 |
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9789004368590 |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004369009 |
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