Thresholds of the sacred
Subtitle: architectural, art historical, liturgical, and theological perspectives on religious screens, East and West
By: edited by Sharon E.J. Gerstel.
Contributors: Gerstel, Sharon E. J.
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Iconostases -- Congresses; Screens (Church decoration) -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Collection of nine papers and introduction concerning the development and meaning of the iconostasis ... presented in the May 2003 Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies symposium"--Data view.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Penetrating the sacred : breaches and barriers in the Jerusalem Temple / Joan R. Branham; title: The decline of communion in Byzantium and the distancing of the congregation from the liturgical action : cause, effect, or neither? / Robert F. Taft; title: Dividing interior space in early Byzantine churches : the barriers between the nave and aisles / Urs Peschlow; title: Veiling sanctity in Christian Egypt : visual and spatial solutions / Elizabeth S. Bolman; title: The proskynetaria of the templon and narthex : form, imagery, spatial connections, and reception / Sophia Kalopissi-Verti; title: An alternative view of the late Byzantine sanctuary screen. Appendix : solid masonry templa / Sharon E.J. Gerstel; title: Symeon of Thessalonike and the theology of the icon screen / Nicholas P. Constas; title: Seeing through screens : the gothic choir enclosure as frame / Jacqueline E. Jung; title: The tramezzo in the Italian Renaissance, revisited; title: Marcia B. Hall.