Title & Author:

Thresholds of the sacred : architectural, art historical, liturgical, and theological perspectives on religious screens, East and West / edited by Sharon E.J. Gerstel.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, ©2006.

Description:

245 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.

Series:

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine studies

Notes:
"Collection of nine papers and introduction concerning the development and meaning of the iconostasis ... presented in the May 2003 Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies symposium"--Data view.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-240) and index.
Penetrating the sacred : breaches and barriers in the Jerusalem Temple / Joan R. Branham -- The decline of communion in Byzantium and the distancing of the congregation from the liturgical action : cause, effect, or neither? / Robert F. Taft -- Dividing interior space in early Byzantine churches : the barriers between the nave and aisles / Urs Peschlow -- Veiling sanctity in Christian Egypt : visual and spatial solutions / Elizabeth S. Bolman -- The proskynetaria of the templon and narthex : form, imagery, spatial connections, and reception / Sophia Kalopissi-Verti -- An alternative view of the late Byzantine sanctuary screen. Appendix : solid masonry templa / Sharon E.J. Gerstel -- Symeon of Thessalonike and the theology of the icon screen / Nicholas P. Constas -- Seeing through screens : the gothic choir enclosure as frame / Jacqueline E. Jung -- The tramezzo in the Italian Renaissance, revisited -- Marcia B. Hall.

Summary:

From the veils of the first-century Jewish temple, to the Orthodox iconostasis, to the tramezzi of Renaissance Italy, screens of various shapes, sizes, and materials have been used to separate spaces and order communities in religious buildings. Drawn from papers presented at a recent Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies symposium, the contributors to this volume use a variety of perspectives to approach the history of religious screens and examine the thresholds that they mark. Focusing on the Middle Ages and Renaissance in the East and West, the volume includes discussions of screens in Egypt, Byzantium, the Gothic West and Italy. Some authors argue that screens, and particularly the one marking the threshold between the sanctuary/choir and nave, were conduits rather than barriers. Other authors emphasize the critical role of screens in dividing the laity and clergy, men and women, the pure and impure.

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ISBN:

9780884023111
0884023117 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Iconostases Congresses.
Screens (Church decoration) Congresses.
Iconostases Congrès.
Jubés Congrès.
Iconostases.
Screens (Church decoration)
Chorschranke
Ikonostase
Kirchendekoration
Kirchenbau
Ausstattung
Iconostase.
Oksalen.
Holy places.
Dumbarton Oaks <Washington, DC, 2003>

Form/genre:

Kongress Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC) 2003.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Dumbarton Oaks (Washington, DC, 2003)
Kongress.

Added entries:

Gerstel, Sharon E. J.
Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249420
Call No.: BIB 179005
Status: Available