Sacred Thresholds: The Door to the Sanctuary in Late Antiquity

List of Contributors......Page 0
General Introduction......Page 15
Part 1 Experiencing Sacred Thresholds......Page 43
Chapter 1 On the Threshold Paul the Silentiary’s Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia......Page 45
Chapter 2 Entering the Baptistery Spatial, Identity and Salvific Transitions in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Baptismal Liturgies......Page 80
Chapter 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)......Page 105
Chapter 4 Bonus Intra, Melior Exi! ‘Inside’ and ‘Outside’ at Greek Incubation Sanctuaries......Page 124
Part 2 Symbolism and Allegory 0f Sanctuary Doors......Page 151
Chapter 5 Sanctuary Doors, Vestibules and Adyta in the Works of Neoplatonic Philosophers......Page 153
Chapter 6 The Paradise of Saint Peter’s......Page 174
Chapter 7 Imagining the Entrance to the Afterlife Peter as the Gatekeeper of Heaven in Early Christianity......Page 201
Part 3 Messages in Stone......Page 233
Chapter 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)......Page 235
Chapter 9 Versus De Limine and In Limine Displaying Greek paideia at the Entrance of Early Christian Churches......Page 268
Chapter 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......Page 296
Part 4 The Presence of the Divine......Page 321
Chapter 11 Filters of Light Greek Temple Doors as Portals of Epiphany......Page 323
Chapter 12 The Other Door to the Sanctuary The Apse and Divine Entry in the Early Byzantine Church......Page 355
General Index......Page 385