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Architecture of the sacred : space, ritual, and experience from classical Greece to Byzantium / edited by Bonna D. Wescoat and Robert G. Ousterhout.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Wescoat, Bonna D.
Ousterhout, Robert G.
Cambridge University Press.
Gemmill Family Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Architecture and religion.
Architecture--Mediterranean Region--Psychological aspects.
Architecture.
Sacred space--Mediterranean Region.
Sacred space.
Psychological aspects.
Mediterranean Region.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxiv, 385 pages) : illustrations
Place of Publication:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
System Details:
text file
Summary:
Investigates the role of architecture in the construction of sacred experience in ancient Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian and Byzantine cultures.
Contents:
Material culture and ritual : state of the question / Jaś Elsner
Monumental steps and the shaping of ceremony / Mary B. Hollinshead
Coming and going in the sanctuary of the great gods, Samothrace / Bonna D. Wescoat
Entering Demeter's gateway : the Roman propylon and in the city Eleusinion / Margaret M. Miles
Architecture and ritual in Ilion, Athens, and Rome / C. Brian Rose
The same, but different: the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus through time / Ellen Perry
Mapping sacrifice on bodies and spaces in late-antique Judaism and early Christianity / Joan Branham
The 'foundation deposit' from the Dura Europos Synagogue reconsidered / Jodi Magness
Sight lines of sanctity at Late Antique Martyria / Ann Marie Yasin
The sanctity of place and the sanctity of buildings : Jerusalem vs. Constantinople / Robert G. Ousterhout
Divine light : constructing the immaterial in Byzantine art and architecture / Slobodan Ćurčić
Structure, agency, ritual, and the Byzantine church / Vasileios Marinis
Afterword / Bonna D. Wescoat and Robert G. Ousterhout.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gemmill Family Book Fund.
ISBN:
9781139017640
1139017640
Publisher Number:
99989259398
40020696069
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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