The strait gate : thresholds and power in Western history / Daniel Jütte.

Main entry:

Jütte, Daniel, 1984- author.

Title & Author:

The strait gate : thresholds and power in Western history / Daniel Jütte.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

viii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-353) and index.
Introduction -- "I am the door": portals of salvation and status -- The power of the keys -- "Whence is that knocking?": precarious passages -- Reading doors -- The "city's eyes": gates and the urban history of Europe.

Summary:

Exploring a chapter in the cultural history of the West not yet probed, The Strait Gate demonstrates how doors, gates, and related technologies such as the key and the lock have shaped the way we perceive and navigate the domestic and urban spaces that surround us in our everyday lives. Jutte reveals how doors have served as sites of power, exclusion, and inclusion, as well as metaphors for salvation in the course of Western history. More than any other parts of the house, doors are objects onto which we project our ideas of, and anxieties about, security, privacy, and shelter. Drawing on a wide range of archival, literary, and visual sources, as well as on research literature across various disciplines and languages, this book pays particular attention to the history of the practices that have developed over the centuries in order to handle and control doors in everyday life.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

9780300211085
0300211082

Subject:

Doors Social aspects.
Doors History.
Doors Philosophy.
Doors Religious aspects.
Civilization, Western History.
Portes Aspect social.
Portes Histoire.
Portes Philosophie.
Civilisation occidentale Histoire.
Civilization, Western.
Doors.
Dörrar sociala aspekter historia.
Dörrar teori, filosofi.
Dörrar religiösa aspekter historia.
Västerlandet historia.

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290542
Call No.: BIB 233591
Status: Available

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