Thresholds of the sacred : architectural, art historical, liturgical, and theological perspectives on religious screens, East and West /

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Other Authors: Gerstel, Sharon E. J.

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, c2006.

Series: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine studies.

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Call Number: NA5082 .T44 2006

Table of Contents:
  • Penetrating the sacred : breaches and barriers in the Jerusalem Temple / Joan R. Branham
  • The decline of communion in Byzantium and the distancing of the congregation from the liturgical action : cause, effect, or neither? / Robert F. Taft
  • Dividing interior space in early Byzantine churches : the barriers between the nave and aisles / Urs Peschlow
  • Veiling sanctity in Christian Egypt : visual and spatial solutions / Elizabeth S. Bolman
  • The proskynetaria of the templon and narthex : form, imagery, spatial connections, and reception / Sophia Kalopissi-Verti
  • An alternate view of the late Byzantine sanctuary screen [with catalogue of solid masonry templa] / Sharon E.J. Gerstel
  • Symeon of Thessalonike and the theology of the icon screen / Nicholas P. Constas
  • Seeing through screens : the Gothic choir enclosure as frame / Jacqueline E. Jung
  • The tramezzo in the Italian Renaissance, revisited / Marcia B. Hall.