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

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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Other Authors: Opstall, Emilie Marlène van.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 185.
Religions in the Graeco-Roman World Online, Supplement 2017, ISBN: 9789004328099.

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Call Number: NA3010

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.