Research Catalog

Title

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.

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Additional Authors

Gerstel, Sharon E. J.

Description

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

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.

Series Statement

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine studies

Uniform Title

Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine studies.

Subject

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

Genre/Form

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

Note

• "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.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-240) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 9780884023111
• 0884023117

LCCN

• 2005028694
• 9780884023111

OCLC

• 61821780
• SCSB-10144994

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library