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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.
This volume provides new research on the history of religious screen and important insights into the many ways in which the sacred and profane are separated within ecclesiastical contexts.
| Penetrating the sacred : breaches and barriers in the Jerusalem Temple | p. 7 |
| The decline of communion in Byzantium and the distancing of the congregation from the liturgical action : cause, effect, or neither? | p. 27 |
| Dividing interior space in early Byzantine churches : the barriers between the nave and aisles | p. 53 |
| Veiling sanctity in Christian Egypt : visual and spatial solutions | p. 73 |
| The Proskynetaria of the templon and narthex : form, imagery, spatial connections, and reception | p. 107 |
| An alternate view of the late Byzantine sanctuary screen | p. 135 |
| Symeon of thessalonike and the theology of the icon screen | p. 163 |
| Seeing through screens : the Gothic chair enclosure as frame | p. 185 |
| The Tramezzo in the Italian Renaissance, revisited | p. 215 |
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ISBN: 9780884023111
ISBN-10: 0884023117
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies
Audience:
Professional
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 400
Published: 1st September 2006
Dimensions (cm): 28.7 x 22.4
x 2.778
Weight (kg): 1.218
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