List of Figures
List of Contributors
General Introduction
Emilie M. van Opstall
Part 1
Experiencing Sacred Thresholds
1 On the Threshold
Paul the Silentiary’s Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia
Emilie M. van Opstall
2 Entering the Baptistery
Spatial, Identity and Salvific Transitions in Fourth- and
Fifth-Century Baptismal Liturgies
Juliette Day
3 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
4 Bonus Intra, Melior Exi!
‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’ at Greek Incubation Sanctuaries
Ildikó Csepregi
Part 2
Symbolism and Allegory 0f Sanctuary Doors
5 Sanctuary Doors, Vestibules and Adyta in the Works of Neoplatonic
Philosophers
Lucia Maddalena Tissi
6 The Paradise of Saint Peter’s
Sible L. de Blaauw
7 Imagining the Entrance to the Afterlife
Peter as the Gatekeeper of Heaven in Early Christianity
Roald Dijkstra
Part 3
Messages in Stone
8 The 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
9 Versus De Limine and In Limine
Displaying Greek paideia at the Entrance of Early Christian
Churches
Gianfranco Agosti
10 The Door to the Sanctuary from Paulinus of Nola to Gregory of
Tours
Enduring Characteristics and Evolutions from the Theodosian to the
Merovingian Period
Gaëlle Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard
Part 4
The Presence of the Divine
11 Filters of Light
Greek Temple Doors as Portals of Epiphany
Christina G. Williamson
12 The Other Door of the Sanctuary
The Apse and Divine Entry in the Early Byzantine Church
Brooke Shilling
Emilie M. van Opstall, Ph.D., is lecturer of Ancient Greek at the
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research focuses on late antique
and Byzantine poetry and its cultural context. Her publications
include an edition, translation and commentary of poems by the
tenth-century poet John Geometres.
Contributors are: Gianfranco Agosti, Sible de Blaauw, Christian
Boudignon, Ildikó Csepregi, Juliette Day, Roald Dijkstra, Gaëlle
Herbert de la Portbarré-Viard, Emilie van Opstall, Evelien Roels,
Brooke Shilling, Lucia Tissi, Christina Williamson
"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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