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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.
- Format:
- Book
- 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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