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Item Number: 114994
Title: Architecture of the Sacred : Space, Ritual, and Experience from Classical Greece to Byzantium
Author: Wescoat, Bonna D. ; Robert G. Ousterhout (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781107008236
Description: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 25cm., hardcover, ca. 440pp., 151 b&w illus. Contents: 1. Material culture and ritual: state of the question, Ja? Elsner ; 2. Monumental steps and the shaping of ceremony, Mary B. Hollinshead ; 3. Coming and going in the sanctuary of the great gods, Samothrace, Bonna D. Wescoat ; 4. Gateways to the mysteries: the Roman propylon and in the City Eleusinion, Margaret M. Miles ' 5. Architecture and ritual in Ilion, Athens, and Rome, C. Brian Rose ; 6. The same, but different: the temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus through time, Ellen Perry ; 7. Mapping sacrifice on bodies and spaces in ancient Judaism and early Christianity, Joan Branham ; 8. The 'foundation deposit' from the Dura Europos synagogue reconsidered, Jodi Magness ; 9. Sight lines of sanctity at Late Antique Martyria, Ann Marie Yasin ; 10. The sanctity of place and the sanctity of buildings: Jerusalem vs. Constantinople, Robert G. Ousterhout ; 11. Divine light: constructing the immaterial in Byzantine art and architecture, Slobodan Curcic ; 12. Architecture as a definer of sanctity in the monastery tou Libos in Constantinople, Vasileios Marinis.
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